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Gongju, South Korea, Shut down illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses, markets, and restaurants.

Campaign updated on 12/30/2022.

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 Gongju, there are numerous 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.

Dog farm in Gongju, South Korea. KAWA.

Video: South Korea’s horrific dog industry. KBS DIGITALNEWS LAB

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

Shown below are 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.”

The searches resulted in dozens of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in the vicinity of Gongju.

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 Gongju 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: Appalling Reality of South Korea’s Illegal Dog Farms (불법 개농장 참혹한 현실 – 제보자들 20200610)

  1. Yumiko Starr
    Yumiko StarrSeptember 22,18

    Please have compassions

  2. Renee Huxham
    Renee HuxhamOctober 19,18

    this cruelty is beyond human comprehension. is south korea a country of backward savages with a sick fetish of eating mans best friend. this country disgusts me AND many others. cruel bastards.

  3. Jingbo Wang
    Jingbo WangJuly 11,20

    please stop animal holocaust and abuse! Please stop killing innocent lives

  4. Lilia Birleson
    Lilia BirlesonAugust 6,21

    Shut down these illegal farms Now. This has to end. Dogs and Cats were not put on this earth to be tortured and abused. They were not put on this earth for human consumption. We have to keep on at the Korean Government. They have to use there power to end this now. It is illegal and barbaric and pure evil.

  5. Steve hohensee
    Steve hohenseeAugust 9,21

    Great work. What wonderful fortitude and persistence.

  6. Helena Maleňáková
    Helena MaleňákováAugust 10,21

    help and save them from cruel and inhuman torture and killing! Be human and stop these horrors and sufferings !!

  7. Lorie hornbeck
    Lorie hornbeckAugust 14,21

    please let these dogs live life …….you are

  8. Anu Sipiläinen
    Anu SipiläinenDecember 31,22

    Lopettakaa tuo kauhea julmuus koirille ja kissoille, ne eivät ole ruokaa vaan rakastettavia lemmikkejä !

  9. Valerie Mallon
    Valerie MallonDecember 31,22

    THE BEINGS THAT DO THIS ARE OBVIOUSLY – MENTALLY ‘DERANGED’, AND SHOULD BE DEALT WITH ACCORDINGLY !!
    WHAT SEEMS TO ESCAPE THESE AUTHORITIES-IS WHAT ON EARTH DO THEY DO TO OTHERS WHO – UNFORTUNATELY- LIVE WITH THEM !!
    THEY SHOULD THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE AND THE CHILDREN – AND THE TERRIBLE INFLUENCE-THESE ‘MONSTERS’, HAVE ON THEIR LIVES !!

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