SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Owners of dogs of certain breeds will be required to sign up for general insurance to compensate for any physical or property damages starting in February next year. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced Tuesday it will hold a series of promotion campaigns with the private [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns are growing that dogs and cats may also be infected with the novel coronavirus as dogs are known to have tested positive for the virus in Hong Kong. However, experts say COVID-19 and other coronaviruses, which dogs and cats can easily be infected with, are different types of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — With more households raising pets as if they were children, the pet product market is expanding rapidly. Online shopping mall Gmarket said Monday that its sales of pet products rose 10 percent last year compared to three years ago. Not only did sales increase, but the variety of products [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will conduct the first “Companion Animal Owner Ability Test” in the country this Saturday. The test, which will be taken by some 250 people who applied in advance last month, is designed to create opportunities to study and see how much companion animal owners or [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — One in five households in Seoul have a pet and the number of homes that have embraced cats is on the rise, data showed Friday. Some 20 percent of the surveyed households said they were living with a pet as of 2018, compared with 18.8 percent in 2014, according [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pizza chain Mr. Pizza launched Tuesday its first offering for pet dogs and cats, dubbed ‘Mr. Petzza’ – a pizza for companion animals inspired by Mr. Pizza’s popular “Cheese Blossom Steak” and “Pepperoni” pizzas. Instead of wheat flour, which is difficult to digest, the dough was made [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Six puppies of two dogs given to President Moon Jae-in by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a gift last year were distributed to local governments Friday, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said. The North’s leader gifted the pair of Pungsan-breed dogs, one male named Songkang and a [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of newly registered pet dogs in South Korea rose nearly 40 percent in 2018 from a year earlier, the country’s animal quarantine agency said Monday. Around 147,000 new dogs were registered to the state-run Animal Protection Management System last year, compared with the newly registered 105,000 pet [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Many people are questioning the effectiveness of the policy that requires certain breeds of dogs to wear muzzles as an increasing number of people are being bitten by dogs that are exempt from wearing them. Last June, a fox terrier, one of the most popular pets in South Korea, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 15,000 abandoned animals at private animal protection centers located throughout South Korea are waiting for a new family. The government reported that the majority of the abandoned dogs are mixed breeds and beagles. According to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Sunday, there are four [...]