SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to one third of South Korean households own pets. However, recent data shows that 3 in 4 pets are often left alone at home, for around six hours every day. KB Financial Group’s research unit reported Sunday that as many as 6 million homes owned pets as of [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans are abandoning their pets as the overall pet-rearing population continues to increase. On the contrary, there aren’t enough state-run animal protection agencies in the country to rescue the abandoned animals. Even if they do, most of the pets end up being euthanized. As [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — PetsgoTravel, a local travel agency for pet-owning adventurers, teamed up with regional airline Hi Air Co. to introduce a flight package on Feb. 19 where travelers depart from Gimpo International Airport and tour the skies above Ulleung Island before returning to the airport. Airlines have been coming up with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government will test pet cats and dogs for COVID-19 if they show symptoms, an official said Monday. The new program will start the same day, several weeks after the country reported its first COVID-19 case involving a pet in a kitten in the southeastern city of [...]
INCHEON, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — With the increasing number of single-person households in South Korea, unmanned laundromats are gaining popularity as more consumers are demanding convenient access to laundry facilities. These laundromats, however, have recently been struggling with customers who bring toys and blankets used by their pets to wash them. Laundromat owners claim [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The most common illnesses that insured pets are diagnosed with at veterinary clinics in South Korea are gastritis/enteritis and conjunctivitis. Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance Co., a South Korean non-life insurer, said Tuesday the number of pets insured by the company’s pet insurance product ‘Petpemint’ reached about 30,000 just [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of abandoned animals in South Korea passed the 130,000 mark in 2019 amid a decline in animal shelters, government data showed Monday. A total of 135,791 dogs, cats and other pets got deserted or lost last year, compared with 121,077 a year earlier, according to the data [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A new health diagnosis kit has been picked as the best invention for pets, according to a survey conducted by the Korean Intellectual Property Office with Facebook users. Among the survey respondents, 307 or 14.9 percent of valid answers picked a health diagnosis kit as the best invention for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The pet market is scrambling to prepare for the upcoming Chuseok holiday as more consumers are adopting pets. SSG.com, Shinsegae Group’s integrated online shopping platform, reported that compared to last year, sales of pet supplies jumped by 43 percent two weeks prior to Chuseok (Sept. 11-17). Sales of travel [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — With the summer vacation season at its peak, the number of pets lost or abandoned has hit record highs. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on Sunday that the number of pets lost or abandoned in July totaled 13,700, the highest monthly figure so far this [...]