SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – After a year marked by a series of bird flu outbreaks, South Korea will continue efforts to improve the living conditions of farm animals going into next year. According to a comprehensive plan announced on Wednesday, the government will implement a number of measures next year, including the adoption of [...]
GYEONGGI, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Pyeongtaek in Gyeonggi Province is considering the idea of launching its own poultry farms that would drastically change the area allocated to each chicken, as part of all-out efforts to prevent and tackle outbreaks of avian influenza that have swept across the country in the past, city [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite new government measures that require farmers to make use of larger cages, the horrific conditions that poultry live under at typical factory farms in South Korea are unlikely to change soon, which have been identified as one of the major factors behind the recent influenza Type A pandemic that [...]
IMSIL, South Korea, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A poultry farm in Imsil County, North Jeolla Province, has just received media spotlight for its “super chickens”, which are roughly six times larger than typical chickens. Shin Seok-yong (49) is the farm’s owner, and his birds currently weigh about 10 kilograms. An average chicken grows to [...]