SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Association of Korean Otter Conservation (AKOC) and the Korea National Park Service Species Restoration Technology Institute (KNPS-SRTI) released a year-and-a-half-old otter back to the wild on Thursday. The otter was rescued in July of last year near the Soyang River, when it was found separated from its family. [...]
YONGIN, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The only remaining polar bear in South Korea, which had lived in a zoo south of Seoul for more than two decades, has died ahead of his relocation to a wildlife park in Britain later this year, zoo officials said Thursday. The bear, named Tongki, died around 6:00 p.m. [...]
NONSAN, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Yeonsan Ogye Foundation, preserving the Korean tradition of remembering animal spirits since 2003, announced Tuesday that it plans to hold ancestral rites for deceased pets in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province on October 21. ‘Yeonsan Ogye’ refers to a kind of chicken native to the Yeonsan region. The species [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — With an increasing number of pet owners in South Korea, cases of animal abuse and abandonment are also increasing in number. A number of puppies were found dead on the rooftop of a building in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province on October 1. It was reported that the puppies looked like they [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An animal rights organization has rescued 200 dogs by helping a dog farm owner change his profession. Humane Society International (HSI), an international animal protection agency, said on Thursday that a dog farm owner in Gyeonggi Province made a request to have his dogs rescued and receive assistance to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A zoo displayed four Siberian tiger siblings, born in May this year, to the public on Friday as part of efforts to preserve the endangered species. The cubs were born at the zoo of Seoul Grand Park to a couple of Siberian tigers with internationally accredited pedigrees — a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A Bengal cat appeared at a parliamentary inspection hearing carried out at the Government Complex in Sejong yesterday morning. Rep. Kim Jin-tae of the Liberty Korea Party said he had brought the cat along with him because it “resembled the puma that had been killed after attempting to escape [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of emergency calls reporting bee hives during the months of August and September dropped significantly compared to last year. Experts assume that hives were destroyed by the notorious heat wave that hit South Korea in August. The National Fire Agency said on Monday that only some 80,000 [...]
ANSAN, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven pigs en route to a slaughterhouse fell out of a truck and roamed around on a highway in Ansan near Seoul for more than two hours, causing traffic congestion at rush hour, police said Friday. Police received a report around 6:45 a.m. that pigs were walking around a [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Three kittens were found dead in the underground parking lot of an apartment complex in Busan, prompting police officials to carry out an investigation. At approximately 12:15 p.m. on October 3, a resident found three dead kittens at an apartment complex in Nam-gu, Busan, and reported the deaths to [...]