HWACHEON, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –Amid the recent opening of the Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon County, several national civic organizations, including vegetarian groups, have condemned the event, accusing organizers and participants of animal cruelty. On January 12, representatives from the Korean Vegetarian Union and other groups gathered in Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul, for a press [...]
LONDON, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Indonesian government is being urged to shut down the country’s cruel live animal markets, where thousands of dogs and cats a week are bludgeoned in public, blowtorched whilst still alive, and butchered for eating. Campaigners from the Dog Meat-Free Indonesia coalition filmed at two of the most notorious [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean animal rights group Care is challenging the 98th article of the Civil Code, which designates animals as “things,” and has asked the Constitutional Court of Korea to adjudicate its constitutionality. The code legally defines “things” as “corporeal things, electricity, and other natural forces which can be managed,” [...]
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, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The fate of now former president Park Geun-hye is likely a prosecutor’s investigation and possibly an arrest warrant, or so a majority of Koreans hope. But the fate of nine Jindo dogs that Park apparently abandoned at the presidential residence Cheong Wa Dae remains uncertain. A pair of Jindo dogs [...]
CHANGWON, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A man who butchered some 600 stray cats received a suspended sentence of 10 months in prison with two years of probation and 80 hours of community service at his appeal trial, meaning that he won’t have to spend any time in jail. Only identified as Jung, the 56-year-old [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid escalating controversy over animal cruelty at Korea’s dog breeding farms, also referred to locally as ‘dog factories’, the overall state of maintenance and supervision of such farms is facing wide criticism. Responsible organizations have taken a hands-off approach to the supervision of dog farms, invariably citing ‘lack of [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – “Don’t buy domestic pets. Adopt them. And please look after your animals” reads a slogan used by a Korean animal rights group. The Korean pet industry has grown bigger than ever, to a two-trillion-won industry, but the increasing popularity of pets has also led to a bigger problem; animal [...]