SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – An ostrich that caused a commotion by running loose on a road in Seongnam, South Korea, had lost its partner about a month earlier, officials said on March 27. According to the Gyeonggi Province Fire and Disaster Headquarters, multiple reports came in around 9:30 a.m. on March 26 that an [...]
GORYEONG, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A lioness was shot dead Monday after escaping from a private tourist animal farm in the southern county of Goryeong, officials said. Police received a report at 7:23 a.m. that the animal had broken out of its cage at the farm in Goryeong, 233 kilometers southeast of Seoul. About [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The two miners rescued from a collapsed mine in southeastern South Korea are quickly recovering, medical doctors said Saturday. The pair surprised the nation by miraculously walking out alive after being trapped for more than nine days in the zinc mine in the county of Bonghwa, 244 kilometers southeast [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — People have continued to cherish the memory of Pporongi, the puma that was shot and killed after escaping from Daejeon O-World. A framed photo of the puma alongside a bouquet of artificial white chrysanthemums and commemorative messages were found at the entrance to the zoo yesterday. The items were [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — After the death of Pporongi, a puma that had called a zoo in Daejeon its home before being shot and killed after escaping from its cage, public sentiment is highly negative due to the nature of how officials tried to handle the situation. As many start to question whether [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Animal rights activist group CARE is pushing for a manual that would allow zookeepers to better handle animals that escape from their cages in response to an incident in Daejeon where a puma had to be shot after escaping from its cage. In a press released, CARE stated that [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of incidences in which dangerous animals have escaped from zoos in Daejeon have begun to strike fear in the residents of the city. Because the cases were due to poor facility management, critics have said more realistic measures need to be set in place to rectify the [...]