SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Going forward, animal hoarders who take on more animals than they can properly care for will be punished for animal abuse. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said yesterday that the newly revised animal law outlining the measure will come into effect starting today. The ministry said [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Animal rights group Care announced yesterday that it had visited the location of a dog fighting ring in Ganghwa-gun, Incheon with police officials, exposing the site where animal abuse was ongoing. Care activists and police officers from Ganghwa Police Station raided the dog fighting ring yesterday circa 5:20 a.m. [...]
CHEONAN, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A dog found alive in a garbage bag in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, died less than a day after being saved by a local animal rescue team. The female Cocker Spaniel was first discovered by a passerby near a trash can on Sunday and was sent to local authorities [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Animal auction houses, which have been identified as a hotbed of illegal distribution of dogs and acts in South Korea, will now be required to register as retail businesses. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) announced Sunday that it had passed a revision to the Animal [...]
JEONGEUP, NORTH JEOLLA, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As Jeongeup City in North Jeolla Province is set to move forward with plans to build a farm animal theme park, the local government is facing accusations of animal abuse from both progressive civic groups and political parties over a proposed bullfight stadium. Jeongeup City’s building project, [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year, 245 pet animals were abandoned on a daily basis in South Korea, according to statistics released by the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency yesterday. In total close to 90,000 animals were abandoned or went missing last year, up 9.3 percent from the previous year, while the figure [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly one million stray cats roaming around the streets of South Korea face hardships, torture, and sometimes the risk of death due to the negative stereotypes that follow them like a shadow. The character of cats has been vastly misrepresented for some time in Korea, and the stereotypes and dislike [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Repeated animal abuse and the sale of stray dogs will be dealt with severely, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFRA) proclaimed today. The ministry has called for reforms to the current Animal Protection Law which will tackle head on the problems of animal cruelty and so [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The result of an interpretation of legislation has revealed that it is not considered animal abuse if animals are used for the purposes of education. An inquiry from a civil petitioner alleged that it should be illegal to make use of animals for testing purposes at school, under charges [...]