SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean animal welfare activists said Thursday they will petition the Constitutional Court next month against the government for not curbing dog meat consumption and slaughterhouses. Members of KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates) and the PNR (People for Non-human Rights) said in a news conference the government has infringed [...]
SUWON, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A Belgian Shepherd dog that received body detection training at a local pet training center showed outstanding performance in finding missing persons. The Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency designated Jesper, and her owner Roh Il-ho as Honorary Neighborhood Police Officers. Roh has been running a pet training center in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With the advent of the era of 10 million “PetFam (pet family)” people who regard pets as family members, the home interior market for pets is also growing rapidly. The concept of interior design is also changing from a place where people can live to a place where pets [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — One in five households in Seoul have a pet and the number of homes that have embraced cats is on the rise, data showed Friday. Some 20 percent of the surveyed households said they were living with a pet as of 2018, compared with 18.8 percent in 2014, according [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Car seats for pets have been chosen as the most essential product for going on a drive with your pet. K Car, a South Korean used-car seller, conducted a survey of 439 male and female adults via Facebook in which 39.2 percent of respondents picked car seats for pets [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Cases involving brutal violence and abuse of pets such as dogs and cats are continuing unabated. Although public calls for stern punishment have been aroused and legislation is strengthened whenever shocking cases are reported, critics say that actual punishments meted out are still insignificant. Seoul’s Mapo Police Station recently [...]
JEONJU, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean public is divided over a recent move to abolish zoos, questioning the intent of breeding animals to show them to the public. Amid the controversy, a zoo in North Jeolla Province is attempting to bring about happy coexistence between humans and animals. It was 2015 when [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Wild boars are posing a growing threat to South Korea’s urban dwellers lately, as the mountain animals flock in growing numbers to residential areas in search of food, destroy properties and facilities and even attack people. This year, wild boars drew fresh media attention, as the deadly African swine [...]
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — An offspring of a pair of Pungsan-breed dogs gifted to South Korean President Moon Jae-in by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is growing healthily on an island just south of the inter-Korean sea border, the Incheon municipal government said Monday. The white female puppy, named Haetnim, is one [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has announced that it is considering introducing advanced bio-recognition technologies, such as animal nose print or nose patterns, in order to improve the pet registration process. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs reported on Sunday that it will spend a total of 692 million won [...]