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[Update Aug 5, 2016] We received a response from the City of Irvine. Mayor Steven S. Choi immediately communicated his concerns to the Mayor of Seocho-gu and requested that she do everything in her power to address the animal cruelty. Click HERE to read more and send thank you email to Mayor and the City Council of Irvine.

Mayor Steven S. Choi of Irvine: Tell Sister City, Seoul Seocho District, South Korea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats.

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.

Seoul Seocho District Mayor Eun-Hee Cho

Seoul Seocho District became Sister city with Irvine in 2013.

Culture, art, high-end shops, first-class hotels and fashionable streets – all can be found within Seocho District in the ‘City of Corporation and IT Industry’; regrettably, so can the so-called ‘health-food centers’, places that brutally slaughter dogs and cats, to be served up as food and drinks.

There are countless dog 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 public and 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 Seoul Seocho District’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 Food 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 130 Health Food Centers; and 56 restaurants in the vicinity of the city of Seoul Seocho District alone.

Even if half of these ‘Health’ Food 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 Seoul Seocho District to supply these outlets.

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

Video: Media Triage: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea.

Please sign petition, call and email Irvine Mayor Steven S. Choi, TODAY!

To make this easy we’ve included text for your call and emails below.

• No matter where you live, please SIGN OUR PETITION
• Email:
  [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
• Send message through Facebook pages:
  City of Irvine
• Send letter (Use the below-suggested message or petition):Mayor Steven S. Choi
  City Council
  1 Civic Center Plaza
  Irvine, CA 92606
  USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Seoul Seocho District Mayor Eun-Hee Cho:
  Mayor Eun-Hee Cho
  Seoul Seocho District Office
  2584 Nambusunhwan-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea (Seocho-dong)
  Postal Code 06750
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:

  조은희 구청장님
  서울 서초구청
  (06750) 서울특별시 서초구 남부순환로 2584 (서초동)
  South Korea

• Call Mayor’s office: 949-724-6233
• Send a Twitter message!
  .@seochonews .@seoulmania .@City_of_Irvine Mayor Choi, Plz urge Sister City, Seoul Seocho, Stop Killing/eating Dogs! https://goo.gl/dSwdYu

No matter where you live, PLEASE SHARE these actions with your friends, especially those who live in Irvine!