SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — KBS TV said Wednesday it has adopted a guideline to ensure the welfare of animals used in television production, following public outrage over revelations that a horse used during filming died due to apparent abuse. The public network has come under fire after it was learned last month that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is rising among students attending colleges located in mountainous areas, where the population of stray cats is increasing. While many students volunteer to organize clubs to protect stray cats, others disapprove of them. The student clubs believe that protecting stray cats helps control the cat population in the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A spate of cat abuse videos, such as setting one homeless feline afire or banging another repeatedly to the ground to death, have sparked outrage among pet owners recently amid concern that such abuses could spread unless punished aggressively. Late last month, a public petition was posted on the [...]
BUSAN, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Abandoned cats and migratory birds are in an uncomfortable stand-off in Eulsuk Island, one of South Korea’s major destinations for migratory birds. The small river island near the southern port city of Busan is a protected zone visited by tens of thousands of migratory birds. Due to the increasing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said Tuesday it will introduce standard guidelines to protect animals appearing in films, TV series and advertisements. This comes as a response to the recent death of a horse that was forced to trip and fall while filming the KBS historical [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A member of Seoul’s municipal council has proposed an ordinance bill calling for the mayor to draw up a long-term plan to ban dog meat consumption and put it into action, officials said Monday. “The culture of thinking of pets as part of the family has already become a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of cases of animal abandonment reported in South Korea has dropped after COVID-19 kept pets and their owners indoors. The Korean Animal Welfare Association reported Wednesday that there were 116,984 reported cases of animal abandonment registered with the animal protection management system last year, which was 9.1 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Netizens are increasingly concerned about their neutered pet cats experiencing unexpected side effects. An animal-related documentary on the state-run education broadcaster EBS introduced a pet cat that pees on unfamiliar smells. The cat’s owner believed that the cat had been neutered. It turned out that the cat, however, wasn’t. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans spend around 150,000 won (US$124) every month on their pets, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs conducted a nationwide survey of 1,296 pet owners between the ages of 20 and 64, which showed that each pet owner has an average of [...]
GWANGJU, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — An animal rights organization has announced plans to begin a thorough investigation into the use of pictures of rapacious birds on transparent sound walls, which it claims are ineffective against preventing birds from colliding with these types of barriers. The ‘Angry Vegans’, an animal rights organization active in the [...]