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Animal Advocacy Group Calls on Government to Save Beagles from Lab Experiments

Animal Advocacy Group Calls on Government to Save Beagles from Lab Experiments

SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A non-profit organization for animal rescue, the Beagle Rescue Network (BRN), has urged the government to rescue the beagles “Feb” and “Cheonwangi” who are being used in experiments at Seoul National University (SNU)’s veterinary college after having completed their duty as detection dogs. Roughly 150 activists from the BRN [...]

Ongoing Controversy over Animal Abuse at Seoul National University

Ongoing Controversy over Animal Abuse at Seoul National University

SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University (SNU) has launched an investigation amid allegations that veterinary professor Lee Byeong-chun abused retired working dogs. Amid the investigation, it came to light that a cloned beagle known as “Mei,” a retired working dog that has touched many hearts after related reports of animal abuse, had [...]

South Korea’s 14 Cloned Sniffer Dogs Play Outstanding Jobs at Airports and Ports

South Korea’s 14 Cloned Sniffer Dogs Play Outstanding Jobs at Airports and Ports

SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) –‘Quppy,’ cloned sniffer dogs, are doing stellar performance at major airports and ports across the nation, according to an announcement by the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (QIA) which has run a program titled ‘Research on Reproduction of Superb Cloned Sniffer Dogs’ together with Seoul National University since 2011.   [...]