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Gimpo, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses, and markets.

Campaign updated 8/10/2022.

If you want to help fight the grisly South Korean dog and cat meat trade and make a difference in South Korea, here are a few quick actions you can take that could save millions of dogs and cats each year.

In Gimpo, there are countless dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets, and restaurants where the dogs, who have been tortured their entire lives, end up being slaughtered in the most inhumane ways, such as by electrocution, hanging, or beating; and then thrown into boiling water – sometimes while they are still alive. In many places, dogs are being killed in full view of other terrified, caged dogs; and this takes place in broad daylight. In addition, many abandoned and stolen former pets end up in this industry and are subject to the same cruelty.

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Gimpo’s dog meat demand.

Two search results on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – the first one was for so-called “Health Centers,” which commonly sell dog elixirs and cat elixirs (also known as dog soju and cat soju), and the second one was for “dog meat restaurants”: 118 Dog Meat Restaurants and 137 Health Centers in the vicinity of Gimpo.

Even if half of these ‘Health’ Centers and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be present in the vicinity of Gimpo to supply these outlets.

There are laws in South Korea against selling dogs and cats for consumption, yet these laws are blatantly ignored.

Call for Action


Video: Dog farms at Gimpo and Incheon Ganghwa, South Korea. Animal Rescue Korea 119 (ARK119).

  1. Elke Hl.
    Elke Hl.August 5,18

    Retwittert, mailed!

    • Ursula SChüssler
      Ursula SChüsslerJuly 12,20

      These people are no humans, they must come out of HELL!
      I have sent about 600 mails and I will send many, many more!

  2. Tina Dunleavy
    Tina DunleavyAugust 7,18

    All posted as directed. Keep up the pressure on these stubborn Koreans it’s the only way to end this atrocity !

  3. pat abbas
    pat abbasAugust 21,18

    Emailed to all Gimpo City Council members. Keep up the pressure. You are all doing an amazing job.

  4. Michael Quinn
    Michael QuinnJanuary 8,19

    Please stop this inhumane treatment of dogs. Shut down these farms and slaughter houses.

  5. Dean j Francois
    Dean j FrancoisMay 7,19

    For thousands of years man has bred dogs to be man’s loyal companion. What kind of barbaric ignorant people would do this to them? I or my family will not purchase anything made in South Korea or China as in Kia, Hyundai, LG, Samsung and others as long as dogs are treated in this way. If it’s made in an evil backward dog eating country don’t buy it. There are plenty of other more civilized nations.

  6. Victor Hoffmann
    Victor HoffmannJune 30,20

    Dean J Francois – I couldn’t agree more! I WILL NEVER BUY ANYTHING made in South Korea until they stop torturing and killing dogs and cats!

  7. Dana Orságová
    Dana OrságováJune 30,20

    please help!! save these dogs and cats! Help !!

  8. Christian Menges
    Christian MengesJuly 1,20

    semicolon is not the right think to devite the emailadress. I need to copy every E-Mail into my email adressline that need to much time. Couldn’t you change the semikolon for a comma??

    • KoreanDogs.org team
      KoreanDogs.org teamJuly 1,20

      Dear Christian,
      Thank you for taking actions for the Korean dogs!! Semicolon separators for the emails works fine with gmail. If you don’t already, you might want to create a gmail account and try again. Thank you!

  9. Susan Fimbrez
    Susan FimbrezJanuary 6,21

    Please stop murdering these loving beings. They have a soul, they have personality and have feelings as humans. They show fear, depression, joy, loyalty, and are obedient. They know what is happening to them when already sick and traumatized, It is inhumane to murder them for food. God’s word says in the Bible in Leviticus 11:27 animals with four legs with paws are unclean and are NOT for consumption. Please! In Jesus name stop this horrific torture and murder!

  10. Lidia
    LidiaJuly 16,21

    Es una salvajada y demuestra la poca sensibilidad y falta de empatía. Creo que lo mejor es hacer un bloqueo a los productos de esos lugares para que por necesidad cambien.

  11. Lilia Birleson
    Lilia BirlesonJuly 16,21

    It is illegal and barbaric and pure evil to allow poor defenceless animals to be treated this way. Those that are involved in the brutal murder of defenceless animals should be prosecuted and imprisoned for there act of cruelty to these poor helpless Animals.
    End this NOW.

  12. Urszula Lund
    Urszula LundAugust 11,22

    BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT this disgusting nation of sadistic psychopaths bestially killing and eating our family members – cats and dogs!!!

    DON’T BUY anything that was made by these BLOOD-SOAKED hands of DOG and CAT TORTURERS!!!!!!!!!!

    People of UKRAINE do their best to SAVE thousands of pets, cats and dogs, from the BLOODY WAR because pets are family members! At the same time SOUTH-KOREA BESTIALLY MURDERS our FAMILY MEMBERS, cats and dogs! HOW DISGUSTING and DISRESPECTFUL of SOUTH-KOREA!

    I’ll remind you that DOGS and CATS are MAN’S BEST FRIENDS SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL AND YOUR SICKENING MANNER TO HORRIFICALLY ABUSE, TORTURE AND KILL THESE LOVING, INNOCENT AND DEFENSELESS ANIMALS MAKE SOUTH KOREA THE MOST HATED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! You INSULT PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO HAVE DOGS AND CATS AS THEIR MOST BELOVED FAMILY MEMBERS! THE WHOLE WORLD WATCHES YOU AND HATES YOU !!! STOP THIS SADISM and CLOSE THE DOG MEAT TRADE NOW! SHAME on sickening and disgusting South-Korea!

  13. Rosana Trevisan
    Rosana TrevisanAugust 11,22

    Help

  14. Anu Sipiläinen
    Anu SipiläinenAugust 11,22

    Olette hirviöitä, lopettakaa lemmikkien syönti heti !!!

  15. mizuki doro
    mizuki doroAugust 12,22

    I filed a petition as you described, sine I am mostly blocked already by the mails. But this cant go on.

  16. KIM MOORE
    KIM MOOREAugust 16,22

    HORROR KOREA SHOULD BE ASHAMED WITH THESE ANIMAL PRACTICES

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