SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — August 8 marks World Cat Day, a global observance established by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) in 2002 to improve awareness about cats and acknowledge their value alongside humans. The day promotes the importance of protecting and caring for cats, with an emphasis on adoption, particularly of [...]
JINJU, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first kitten infected with COVID-19 has been released from quarantine. The 3-month-old kitten, which tested positive during the coronavirus epidemiological investigation of a mass outbreak in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, was released from quarantine last Wednesday. The kitten is one of three pet kittens owned by a [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Three kittens were found dead in the underground parking lot of an apartment complex in Busan, prompting police officials to carry out an investigation. At approximately 12:15 p.m. on October 3, a resident found three dead kittens at an apartment complex in Nam-gu, Busan, and reported the deaths to [...]
ICHEON, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On Monday, four kittens trapped inside an underground drain system in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province were saved by a team of firefighters. One neighborhood resident heard kittens crying near the outdoor drain system beneath the ground while walking within the Janghowon-eup Sports Center compound before calling emergency rescue workers for [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 14 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries on September 7 based on a research project commissioned to the Korea Social Economic Institute, the number of house cats in Korea has almost doubled in two years to 1.16 million in 2012 from 630,000 in 2010. The [...]