SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A poodle that was kept in a coin locker for nine hours has sparked a debate over pet coin lockers at major supermarket chains in South Korea. A shopper whose name is being withheld left a dog in a pet locker on Sunday at a Lotte Mart store in Jeonju, [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s insect industry is on the rise. In North Gyeongsang Province, the number of insect farms increased by 63 percent last year, from 244 to 398 households with an increase of 209 workers. Since 2014, when there were 68 households farming insects, the industry has seen more entrants [...]
SACHEON, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Passengers on a new cable car’s trial run at the southern tip of Korea found themselves twice lucky as they were treated to a rare sighting of an endangered porpoise species native to regional waters. The sighting occurred at Sacheon, a coastal city in South Gyeongsang Province. What made [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite growing criticism, the number of animals used in South Korean lab experiments is increasing, reaching 3 million for the first time last year. Data from the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency released on Wednesday revealed that the number of animals used for testing and research rose 7.1 percent last [...]
ULSAN, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Removed from their home of seven years after the appearance of an unexpected predator, a family of geese are back where they belong on the campus grounds of UNIST, a science and technology research university located in the southeastern city of Ulsan. Originally a family of seven, only four [...]
An animal rights group has launched a campaign to combat prejudice against dark dogs in South Korea. SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Animal advocacy group Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth, known as CARE, uploaded a YouTube video highlighting the prejudice facing darker dogs, as part of its Black Dog Campaign. The four-and-a-half-minute long video produced [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A revision to the Animal Protection Act that toughens punishment for perpetrators of animal cruelty and pet owners who abandon their animals has gone into effect as scheduled starting today. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs will expand the scope of “animal cruelty” to include force-feeding animals [...]
ULSAN, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “Though whale meat that is illicitly procured and sold is thought of negatively by South Korean consumers, they buy it without having the means of confirming whether the meat has been gotten through legal channels.” Bradley Tatar, a professor at UNIST and the first non-Korean scholar to analyze Ulsan’s [...]
SEJONG, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agriculture ministry said Wednesday it will implement a revised animal safety law to require dogs to wear a leash in public places, but it withheld a controversial plan to give cash rewards to those who report violators amid a backlash from animal lovers. Starting from Thursday, dogs [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting on March 22, the government’s decision to financially reward those who report dog owners for not leashing their pets in public goes into effect. Dogs without dog tags, owners who fail to pick up after their dog’s feces and unmuzzled “fierce dogs” – pitbull terriers, mastiffs, rottweilers – [...]