Friendship City Campaign – Paju, South Korea – Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Campaign updated on 4/4/2023.
Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart: Tell Friendship City, Paju, South Korea, you oppose 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.
Paju became a Friendship City to Coquitlam, Canada, in 2009.
In Paju, there are numerous dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets, and dog meat 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 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 Paju’s dog meat demand.
Two searches on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – 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” – resulted in dozens of “Health Centers” and dog meat restaurants in the vicinity of Paju.
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 in the vicinity of Paju to supply these outlets.
There are laws in South Korea against selling dogs and cats for consumption, yet these laws are blatantly ignored.
Dogs sold to butchers at auction for dog meat in Paju and rescued right before electric slaughter.
Call for Action
- 📧 Send emails to the Coquitlam mayor and the city council members.
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- 📬 Send letter.
Mayor Richard Stewart
Coquitlam City Hall
3000 Guildford Way
Coquitlam, BC Canada V3B 7N2
Canada📬 Send a copy of your letter to the Paju Mayor:
Mayor Kim Gyeong-il
Paju City Hall
50 Sicheong-ro, Paju, Gyeonggi-do Province, Postal Code 10932
South Korea📬 Paju address in Korean:
김경일 파주시장님
파주시청
(우 10932) 경기도 파주시 시청로 50
South Korea - ☎️ Call the Coquitlam Mayor’s office. 1-604-314-4345 (calling from the United States)
Suggested phone message
Hello, I’m calling to speak to someone in the Mayor’s Office to ask for their help on an important issue regarding your Friendship city, Paju, in South Korea.
If I could explain, dog-meat consumption is currently practiced in that city, even though it is illegal under South Korean Law – but the laws are not enforced. The dog and cat meat trades involve extreme and widespread animal cruelty, and the animals suffer unimaginable pain and distress. They cannot speak for themselves, so I am calling on their behalf. And I believe that your city would wish to be made aware of this issue, as you would not want to be affiliated with a city where illegal and immoral torture is being carried out on any animal, and particularly not on ones that are loyal, trusting creatures, which look up to us humans as their guardians.
These illegal trades are being allowed to continue by Paju and Korean authorities – even though there is growing opposition from pet owners across South Korea and worldwide.
So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in Paju to urge them to enforce their laws, not ignore them, show compassion to their companion animals, and respect their citizens by bringing these trades to an end.
I know South Korea has many beautiful, admirable, and noble practices and customs worth preserving, but this is not one of them.Thank you for your time and understanding.
- Send a Twitter message!
.@pajusi .@ggholic .@pajusi .@dy_future .@cityofcoquitlam #Coquitlam #Canada Tell Friendship City #Paju #SouthKorea that you are opposed to the torture/consumption of #Dogs #Cats #Dogmeat #Catmeat https://chng.it/yt7QkHMS😿https://koreandogs.org/kara-paju-dog-auction-house/🙏https://koreandogs.org/Friendship-city-paju-Coquitlam
📧 CC (Carbon Copy) the Paju city council, Gyeonggi-do Assembly, and South Korean National Assembly members.
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📝 Suggested message
Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart: Please tell Friendship City, Paju, South Korea, you oppose the torture and consumption of dogs and cats.
Dear Mayor Stewart and the Coquitlam City Council members:
As mayor and representatives of Coquitlam, we ask you to reconsider your “friendship” with Paju, a city that permits dogs and cats to be horribly abused and brutally killed for food.
While graphic, these undercover videos depicting South Korea’s dog meat industry are important to watch:
Shocking Cruelty of South Korea’s Dog Meat Industry, Part 1 of 2: https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ
Part 2 of 2: https://vimeo.com/754160791
Paju dog auction house operating on “Blind Spot,” Even on military-owned land: https://youtu.be/C6svoHlN2WM
https://koreandogs.org/kara-paju-dog-auction-house/
Dogs who suffered their entire lives are electric tortured and killed in cages—South Korea’s horrific dog meat industry. https://koreandogs.org/jtbc-news-electric-tortured-in-cages/
Paju is one of the largest dog meat suppliers and consumption cities in South Korea. There are numerous dog farms and dog slaughterhouses in Paju. Korean web searches of Paju turn up dozens of dog meat restaurants and so-called “Health Centers” that commonly serve soup made of dog meat as phony elixirs (also known as dog soju).
Dogs suffer their entire lives in filthy, feces-encrusted raised wire cages in dire misery only to be slaughtered in the most horrific of ways— tortured by electrocution, hammer strikes to their head, hanging, being beaten to death, having their throats slit, being burned alive with a blowtorch or thrown into a vat of boiling water while still alive. In many places in Paju, dogs are killed in full view of other caged dogs who tremble with terror. These poor dogs are often burned alive in their cages, unable to escape. In addition, beloved pets are often stolen and sold to these slaughterhouses, where they meet the same horrific fate. Puppies who die of disease are tossed away like trash, often left in front of cages to rot while their mothers watch and cry out in despair.
Mayor Christopher Chung of Palisades Park, New Jersey, has already shown his rejection of the dog meat trade in no uncertain terms. As reported in the Korea Times, he recently rejected a visit from exchange students from the friendship city, Incheon Ganghwa County, due to its dog meat trade. In California, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting legislation or administrative action that would request the governments of South Korea, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia ban the sale of dog meat and enforce their animal protection laws.
On behalf of companion animal-loving people worldwide, we ask that you follow these bold leads by not remaining silent in the face of such abhorrent cruelty. Please urge Paju Mayor Kim Gyeong-il to shut down all Paju dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets, dog meat restaurants, and truckers transporting dogs to their inevitable fates. An online petition calling for your support in ending such horrors perpetrated in Paju is in progress: https://chng.it/yt7QkHMS.
Thank you for your serious consideration. We eagerly await your reply.
Sincerely,
[Your name, city, country]
No matter where you live, PLEASE SHARE these actions with your friends, especially those who live in Coquitlam! 🙏
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This primitive, inhuman practice of torture and murder of sentient creatures which is prevalent in south korea surely cannot be approved by the sister cities throughout the world. It is shameful of a country which has no interest in moving forward, no interest in implementing the laws which are in place, no interest in educating their ignorant is a blot on the modern world and should be shown up as the antithesis to humanity.
Thank you for all these addresses, I am writing, sending letters, and signing everything on this horrendous inhumane practice!! I hope with all our efforts and the Koreans being soon in the lime light globally for the Olympic games, that this can finally be stopped. It saddens me to see how horrific some people can be
Please boycott everything from this evil country!! Do not buy KIA,HYUNDAI,SAMSUNG,LG,POSCO,SK,as these companies do have influence,but do nothing! Samsung gave the markets a machine that rips the fur off the dogs alive.These are not human beings.They enjoy inflicting pain and suffering on innocent animals. They have lost their dignity as human beings. Shame on all of them for condoning this brutal and disgusting dog and cat meat trade.
Kuinka te voitte olla noin alkeellinen kansa että syötte lemmikkejä, todella kauheata. Lopettakaa heti tuo julmuus !
Yes dogs and cats are man woman and childs best friends and life long companions. These are precious VOICELESS innocent animal BEINGS. With hearts and souls and feelings. God is watching and payback is a bitch!!!! Stop this MADNESS and start being real human BEINGS. With hearts and souls for innocent precious animal BEINGS.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! The farming, theft, torture, slaughter and consumption of our family members – cats and dogs – must stop NOW! PLEASE!
I understand that every nation treats their animals in different ways. Personally, I try to live a completely animal cruelty free life, but different cultures have their different beliefs. I think it says a lot about a nation, and a person, how they treat animals. To torture these poor animals in unimaginable ways whilst they scream in pain takes a dark soul. What have we become as a species to let this behaviour carry on? and to turn a blind eye whilst knowing this practice goes on is almost worse. We should be standing up to the meat trade in general. Dogs in Korea are not the only animals in pain. Every animal bred in captivity for our consumption is in anguish, not just the cute fluffy ones. Please spare a thought for them too please if you haven’t already.
And if it is the last thing I do, I won’t let these horrible practices in South Korea go unnoticed. For a developed country it is a great Imageproblem to have this backwards and cruel things done to men’s best friend: dogs.
I hope in regards South Koreas international reputation and image as a modern country they will end this horrific animal abuse. World wide all dog lovers should unite to end this.
This needs to stop it breaks my heart why do they need to eat dog / cat it makes be so angry I cry nearly every day I hope one day it stops forever but when will that day come we need to stop this NOW it’s gone on why too long
this horrfice atrocities against defenseless dogs and cats who are compassionate pets and aren’t for human consumption this misguided evil brutal ritual goes against all humanity. the horrfic slaughter and the barbaric inhumane killing .we has human have accountability on earth and aren’t on the plant to cause horrfice atrocities and bloodshed and burning animals alive , skinning them alive ,blowtorch them ,boiling them alive hanging ,electrocution. what sort of monsters does this to animals. they like humans have every right on earth .your atrocities speaks volumes of total disregard for life of animals China,Cambodia, north south Korea, Thailand,Philippines, Indonesia,Vietnam stop your horrfic barbaric torture and despicable heartless bloodshed .stop teaching your children animal abuse and crueality you have a brain and no from right and wrong use it for humanity and end this pure godless evil
All of these wicked practices must be stopped and banned worldwide – now!
DOGS ARE NOT FOOD! SHAME ON U
It is so shocking what mankind is able to do against animals. Go vegan, eat fruits and vegetables, but not our amazing, wonderful friends – animals. Our earth needs peace, not slaughterhouses.
Please adhere to the Law. Be kind to all creatures and foremost the animals in your custody!!!!!
For the past two years I have been signing petitions and emailing All emails on these websites with the addresses that contain @gmail.com, This address will more likely go through along copying and pasting the letter message recommended. I’ve also written my own personal letter and had it translated in Korean attaching it to each email. I consider this my part in making a difference. Along with prayer!
I oppose torture & consumption of Dogs & Cats — END sadistic, immoral, hateful treatment of Dogs & Cats – we have ALTERNATIVES — SHAME on us for ALLOWING such COWARDLY, BRUTAL treatment of innocent, vulnerable Animals, who deserve care, respect & love