SEONGNAM, South Korea, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Seongnam’s Moran Market is finally making a move away from dog meat distribution, which has long given the traditional market a bad name for animal cruelty. According to the city government and the Moran Market vendors’ association, 15 of 22 vendors selling dog meat are beginning a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Police have arrested a man in his twenties for having abused a cat with boiling water and posting a video of the abuse on the Internet. Law enforcement officials from Seoul’s Bangbae district revealed on February 14 that the perpetrator identified only as A, age 25, was arrested on [...]
ULSAN, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – One of two dolphins recently brought to Korea from Japan died Monday only five days after relocating to its new home at Ulsan’s Whale Experience Hall. According to officials, who announced the death on Tuesday, the dolphin died at 9:15 p.m. on Monday. The five-year-old dolphin left Taiji, Wakayama [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A finless porpoise rescued from Geoje Island waters last month has been safely released back to the ocean. The porpoise was accidentally caught in the fishing net of a local vessel on December 27, giving it multiple scars. Luckily, the captain of the ship reported the incident to officials [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – River rats native to South America, also known as nutria, were first introduced to Korea in the 1980s by fur ranchers. Although officials at the time didn’t expect the animals to survive in the wild in the cold winter weather, the rats showed exceptional adaptability, surviving winters in their [...]
SEOUL, January 29 (Korea Bizwire) –Properly caring for pets can be an expensive endeavor. And given that comprehensive health insurance coverage for pets has yet to be implemented in Korea, this hard fact hits home for many animal lovers in a nation where over 10 million people have welcomed pets into their homes. No wonder [...]
GEOJE, South Korea, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A 60-centimeter-tall eagle was found trapped in a net surrounding a farm in a village near Geoje Wednesday morning. The bird was quickly rescued by local 911 emergency responders, who temporarily moved it to a nearby barn. According to city officials, the eagle was dehydrated and seemingly [...]
ULSAN, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean waters have become dangerous habitat for finless porpoises, sometimes referred to in Korea as “smiling whales” for their grinning faces. According to the Ulsan Coast Guard, a total of 9,710 whales died in the five-year period from 2011 to 2015 from either illegal poaching or unintended catch in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Animal rights organization Tinker Bell Project announced Thursday that it had installed four “soup kitchen” shelters for stray cats around the National Assembly building in Seoul on January 4. The shelters, in the form of two-story mini-cabins, will provide a resting place for the animals to escape the cold [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – After last week’s discovery of cats infected with the H5N6 strain of avian influenza in Korea, animal rights activists have voiced concerns that the animals may also face a similar fate as some 30 million poultry that have been culled so far across the country. Although the government made [...]