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

Campaign updated 7/11/2022.

Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin

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.

Seongnam’s new mayor Shin Sang-jin said on his official page,
“We will create a luxury city together with citizens through communication!
Smart, an innovative city leading the 4th industrial revolution!
A healthy city full of pleasant environment and vitality!
A fast and convenient transportation city that connects in all directions!
An Integrity city that moves in the right direction into the future!”
But can his plans be achieved with the massive dog meat industry operating in his city, including the largest dog meat market in the country, Moran Market?

In Seongnam, 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.

LCA/ALW’s 5-month Investigation into Seongnam Moran Market Exposes the Ongoing Cruelty of the Dog Meat Trade

Video: Dogs who suffered their entire lives are electric tortured and killed in cages—South Korea’s horrific dog meat industry. jtbc News.[추적보도 훅] 철창 갇힌 채 감전사…’먹히기 위해’ 죽어가는 개들 / JTBC 뉴스룸


MBC News: Dog meat debate hotter than Boknal (Malbok), Unsanitary and infected dogs distributed as meat.

Seongnam Taepyeong-dong Dog Slaughterhouse

Photo: House of Horror – The Seongnam Taepyeong-dong Dog Slaughterhouse

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Seongnam’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); the second one was for “dog meat restaurants,” resulted in hundreds of Health Centers and restaurants in the vicinity of Seongnam.

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 Seongnam to supply these outlets.

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

Animal rights organizations including ARK119 together held an Anti-Dog Meat Protest at the Seongnam Moran Dog Meat Market (the largest dog meat market in South Korea) on July 9, 2022.

Call for Action

Seongnam Taepyeong-dong Dog Slaughterhouse

Seongnam Taepyeong-dong Dog Slaughterhouse

Photos: Jung Jin Woo.

https://www.facebook.com/careanimalrights/videos/1869217026478518/
Video: Horror in the night! CARE confronts a dog slaughterhouse in Seongnam, South Korea!

Click HERE to watch more videos from CARE’s surprise visit on August 15, 2018 and press conference on August 16, 2018.

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

Video: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea

  1. Kathy Tenda
    Kathy TendaAugust 3,18

    Please shut down dog meat trade!

    • Tina Jones
      Tina JonesAugust 4,18

      It’s about time humans stopped being barbaric to innocent animals

  2. Carrie Gron
    Carrie GronAugust 5,18

    This is gut-wrenching!!!! I can’t believe the horror put upon these dogs and cats. PLEASE PLEASE STOP! i BEG OF YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE.

  3. BECKER
    BECKERAugust 6,18

    PLEASE STOP THIS HORROR!!! ARE U HUMAN?????

  4. Terri Miller
    Terri MillerAugust 6,18

    This is so terrible to do this to these innocent animals , they don’t deserve to be murder. what is wrong with these people that do that.

  5. Fran
    FranAugust 6,18

    I thought Korea was a Christian country. Do you think God approves of your torture and murder of innocent animals. The Korean government is responsible for the murder in their country. You will answer to God one day. No excuses! The blood of those innocent animals will be required. You will give an account of this evil you allowed in your country.

  6. Carole Wales-Smith
    Carole Wales-SmithAugust 6,18

    This sort of horror is a blight on Korea and damages your tourist industry.

  7. AudreyCowan
    AudreyCowanAugust 6,18

    Stop this now this disgusting treatment of Dogs .You are sick people

    • n.k.y. uhlenhop
      n.k.y. uhlenhopOctober 8,18

      yes, cruelty must stop!

  8. Iris Neuwirth
    Iris NeuwirthAugust 6,18

    I wish , you feeling the same pain and suffering like this poor , innocent ANIMALS !!!

  9. Vasil Tsoukis
    Vasil TsoukisAugust 6,18

    I am not buying any products from this country and encouraging others to do the same. Boycott the country’s famous industrial products like Samsung, LG, Hyundai, KIA until they abolish their horrendous habits.

  10. Sabrina
    SabrinaAugust 7,18

    Possa il vostro Dio sprofondare il vostro Paese subito.

  11. Barb
    BarbAugust 8,18

    THESE HUMANS TRASHES WHO’S KILL ,TORTURING THESE POOR INNOCENTS DOGS & CATS ALSO WHO’S EATING THEM WILL BE ROTTEN IN HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DISGUSTING PRIMITIVE NATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!STOP STOP STOP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  12. nelly garzon
    nelly garzonAugust 10,18

    No son humanos son unos malditos demonios

  13. Eva Degner
    Eva DegnerAugust 16,18

    Stop the animal cruelty

  14. Missy Whisman
    Missy WhismanAugust 17,18

    These people need to burn in hell for what they are doing

  15. Takako Ishii-Kiefer
    Takako Ishii-KieferAugust 18,18

    It is such unspeakable and disturbing cruelty. My heart pounds so hard as reading what is really happening in this deplorable industry. It should not be culture to torture and abuse innocent animals. It is a crime and must be abolished completely immediately. So much sacrifice has been made for centuries meaninglessly.

  16. Sally
    SallyAugust 18,18

    The world is in horror watching your country torture these animals who would dies for us. I beg you to stop.

  17. rose guarini
    rose guariniAugust 21,18

    please stop this ,it is inhumane for these poor animals are going thru ,no where to run their faces so scared and all they want to to be free and be able to get love and a good home with someone to love them not hurt or torture them .please have a heart and stop this I know you want money but please fine a better way then hurt and torturing these poor animals

  18. Richard Dames
    Richard DamesAugust 21,18

    I Thought we were done with this !@#$%^&*. What happened to the SO CALLED LAW that was supposed to have been brought in to STOP this. Was that ALL just BULL???
    Obviously!!! BOYCOTT, BAN, AND STOP SUPPORTING korean PRODUCTS like Samsung, Kia, etc.

  19. Margie Hancock
    Margie HancockAugust 22,18

    The EVIL dog and cat abuse/killing must to stop!!!!

  20. rose guarini
    rose guariniSeptember 11,18

    please stop this it is inhumane for this .

  21. Alessandra Trois
    Alessandra TroisOctober 4,18

    Nella foto soprastante vedo la foto di un sindaco di sesso femminile, come donna mi sorprendo che quella signora non provi a cambiare le cose, ritengo che una donna per istinto dovrebbe avere una sensibilità maggiore e avere più pietà per degli esseri viventi indifesi e spaventati

  22. Barb
    BarbOctober 25,18

    KARMA GET THESE BASTARDS SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!STOP STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  23. rose guarini
    rose guariniNovember 19,18

    please stop this it is inhumane ,

  24. Linda Petersen
    Linda PetersenNovember 20,18

    Stop this insanity! People who can abuse these awesome animals belong in prison for the rest of their lives!

  25. Carmen Rocco
    Carmen RoccoDecember 13,18

    KOREA YOU ARE SO CRUEL , IF I HAD POWER TO FREE ALL ,
    Why you are so barbaric .??? NOW IT IS TIME AND YOU CANNOT KILL SUCH INNOCENT LOVELY ANIMALS

  26. Dana Orságová
    Dana OrságováFebruary 2,19

    help for dogs and cats!!!!!!!!!!!! please !!!!!

  27. Tizi
    TiziFebruary 2,19

    Change is possible. Kindness is possible. Stopping suffering is possible. Make the right decision. STOP The dog and cat meat industry NOW. Be part of the evolution.

  28. Colleen MERRICK
    Colleen MERRICKJune 26,19

    These people need to pay for there abuse to animals. KARMA KARMA KARMA

  29. Eleanor McElroy
    Eleanor McElroyJuly 21,19

    It’s sickening that a so called civilised country behaves in the most barbaric uncivilised manner.

  30. Veronica
    VeronicaSeptember 23,19

    IT MUST STOP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE EXTREMLY RUDE AND CRULE FOR WHAT YOURE DOING!!!!!!!!!!!! SSSSTTTTOOOOPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  31. Anna
    AnnaJuly 9,20

    Please give them a chance to live a Happy life

  32. Kateřina Orságová
    Kateřina OrságováJuly 9,20

    PLEASE HELP ALL DOGS AND CATS, SAVE THEM! HELP !!

  33. Arlette VIER
    Arlette VIERAugust 18,20

    LAMENTABLE ! IGNOBLE

  34. Connie Nickum
    Connie NickumJanuary 12,21

    Shame on your country! you should not be allowed any animals at all!!

  35. Kathleen Perdomo
    Kathleen PerdomoJanuary 17,21

    I can’t believe people are so cruel, and so sick. These are not civilized people. This is sticking.

  36. Lisa Bethel
    Lisa BethelJanuary 17,21

    Stop this torture of completely innocent animals. Have respect for living creatures who feel pain, suffering, joy & happiness. How can you NOT SEE the abhorrent cruelty and shame that is this abhorrent practice?

  37. Lilia Birleson
    Lilia BirlesonJuly 23,21

    This is illegal and barbaric and has to end NOW.
    Stop the killing of innocent animals.

  38. Dana Orságová
    Dana OrságováJuly 28,21

    help for this dogs, pleas help !!!

  39. Rosana Trevisan
    Rosana TrevisanJuly 12,22

    Help

  40. Lilia Birleson
    Lilia BirlesonJuly 12,22

    This is MURDER. This is horrific. This is barbaric. Shut down these illegal farms NOW. Too many Animals have been killed for human consumption. These poor innocent Animals were not put on this earth to be tortured and abused. They were not put on this earth for human consumption. This is illegal. These farms are illegal. Poor defenseless Animals are going killed. This has to end NOW. We have to shut down these illegal farms NOW.

  41. Urszula Lund
    Urszula LundJuly 12,22

    SICKENING South-Korean SADISTIC PSYCHOPATHS do NOT deserve this planet.
    South-Koreans are DOGS and CATS TORTURERS hated by the whole world!

    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! YOU ARE SADISTIC ANIMAL-HATERS and disgusting sadistic psychopaths!!! South-Koreans are LOWLIFE HUMAN SCUM, they don’t deserve life on this planet, these mentally-sick bastards. I PUKE at the very mention of South-Korea!!!!!!

  42. Eva Anderson-Hanhineva
    Eva Anderson-HanhinevaJuly 12,22

    Why is this allowed to continue, there are no people with feelings in this country. Animals are God’s creations, he sees everything that man destroys. That you are not afraid when you do such terrible things to God’s created animal.

  43. Susan
    SusanJuly 15,22

    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!

  44. Sher
    SherJuly 15,22

    Repulsive, hell hole of mentally perverted people! There’s nothing uglier than people without compassion! Advance into a civilized society! Pathetic and shameful!

  45. Sue
    SueJuly 15,22

    PETITION FILED AND EMAILS SENT

  46. Anu Sipiläinen
    Anu SipiläinenJuly 16,22

    Lopettakaa tuo kauhea julmuus lemmikeille! Ne eivät ole ruokaa vaan rakastettavia lemmikkejä! Lopettakaa heti, olette hirviöitä !

  47. Eileen Easton
    Eileen EastonJuly 19,22

    PLEASE, I AM BEGGING YOU, PLEASE END THIS NIGHTMARE FOR THESE INNOCENT DOGS AND CATS!!!!! THEY ARE SENTIENT BEINGS; THE SUFFERING THEY ENDURE IS HORRIFIC!!! “COMPASSION IS THE SIGN OF A NATION’S GREATNESS”!!! I CRYH EVERY DAY FOR THESE PRECIOUS ANIMALS!!

  48. Alessandra Trois
    Alessandra TroisAugust 15,22

    Questo orribile inferno deve assolutamente finire subito

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