SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Local authorities are opening up an additional number of pet adoption centers to find new families for abandoned pets. An abandoned animal adoption center that opened last October in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province has already sent away its 100th animal for adoption in less than a year. A new pet [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Unregistered pets will now be denied access to public facilities in South Korea. Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum passed a new policy for the management of abandoned animals on Thursday at a state council meeting. The government announced that it will raise the proportion of registered animals to more than 70 percent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Unlike the negative views held by certain groups towards abandoned dogs in terms of health and behavior, abandoned animals turned out to adjust well at adopted homes as they are cared for and their wounds are healed. Lim Ji-min, a 23-year-old who adopted an abandoned dog from the Korea [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that it will test run an adoption center for abandoned animals in the city. The city, along with a local civic organization, rented a closed pet cafe to turn it into the Balradang Adoption Cafe, an adoption center for abandoned animals. Unlike other [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s southern district of Gwanak will set up a veterinary clinic with emergency and intensive care units for abandoned animals. The center will offer medical treatment to lost or abandoned animals that require emergency treatment after an accident or those with severe injuries that cannot be treated at animal [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans are abandoning their pets as the overall pet-rearing population continues to increase. On the contrary, there aren’t enough state-run animal protection agencies in the country to rescue the abandoned animals. Even if they do, most of the pets end up being euthanized. As [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of abandoned animals in South Korea passed the 130,000 mark in 2019 amid a decline in animal shelters, government data showed Monday. A total of 135,791 dogs, cats and other pets got deserted or lost last year, compared with 121,077 a year earlier, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Gangdong District, jointly with LG Uplus Corp., plans to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) for the protection of abandoned animals. The district will use the AI to collect data by observing diseases or abnormal activities, and monitoring the status of each abandoned animal brought in for protection. An AI [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to offer financial incentives to individuals who adopt abandoned animals. The plan is to offer subsidies of up to 100,000 won (US$85.11) for each adoption as part of the country’s effort to raise awareness of respecting animal life and promote healthier ways to adopt animals, the [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications firm, announced Tuesday that it will join hands with KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates), an advocacy group for animal rights, to promote the adoption of abandoned animals. The company will open up smart hotels for dogs and cats at the Pet [...]