SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s resorts and hotels are scrambling to attract so-called “petfam” guests with pets. Petfam (pet+family) refers a family that treats pets as a family. The Kensington Resort Chungju, which became a pet-friendly resort facility in December 2020, has been visited by 50,000 people ever since, who brought 65,000 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Seniors living alone can raise their level of life satisfaction and lower stress by adopting a pet, a study showed Tuesday. A research team from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs surveyed 1,308 people over 60 years of age forming single-person households, to learn about their pets, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Black goats are rising as a social issue around Jeju Island. The Ministry of Environment announced that it will begin a project to capture black goats living on Cheongdo Island, an uninhabited island off the coast of Jeju, in April and May. Government officials confirmed that there were some [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is strengthening its pet ownership policy to prevent dog bite accidents. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced Thursday that it will make an advance notice of legislation for the new enforcement decree for the Animal Protection Act. Currently, owners of pets that are subject [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based pet health management platform developed by a South Korean startup will be used for non-face-to-face diagnosis in the U.S. AI FOR PET, the operator of the pet health management application TTcare, said Wednesday it will provide an AI-based pet medical environment in collaboration with American [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of red-crowned cranes visting Cheorwon Plain in Cheorwon, 88 kilometers northeast of Seoul, has surged in recent years, a study indicated Tuesday. A paper recently published by the Korean Journal of Ornithology showed that the number of red-crowned cranes and white-naped cranes flying over to Cheorwon Plain, [...]
GANGNEUNG, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A sharp-eyed photographer captured a video of an endangered white-tailed sea eagle playing with a golf ball. One fully-grown and two juvenile white-tailed sea eagles are spending their winter at Namdae Stream in Gangneung, Gangwon Province. Last Sunday, after sitting on the sand bank of the stream for a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A monkey that underwent a pig kidney xenotransplantation procedure that was developed by the National Institute of Animal Science survived for 115 days, setting a new domestic record for the longest survival time. A research team at Konkuk University implanted a pig kidney into a monkey in August last [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Animal hospitals with more than two veterinarians will be required to disclose medical fees for major types of treatment, including vaccinations and X-rays. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on Tuesday that the Veterinarians Act was revised to require that animal hospitals disclose medical costs for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment has distributed an educational and experience program manual for the exhibition of animals at zoos to municipal governments and zoos across the country. The exemplary cases of the manual indicate that the programs should be halted if visitors do not comply with control or if [...]