Sister Province Campaign – Gyeonggi Province, South Korea – British Columbia, Canada
✳️ This campaign replaces our previous campaign.
British Columbia: Tell your Sister Province, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, that you are 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.
Gyeonggi Province became a Sister Province of British Columbia, Canada, in 2008.
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The “Special Bill to end the breeding, slaughter, and distribution of dogs for consumption and dog meat consumption” was passed by South Korea’s National Assembly on January 9, 2024, mandating the cessation of all related operations. However, the dog meat trade has always been illegal, and despite this new legislation, there has been no change, and the situation remains dire for the dogs confined in dog farms across the country.
In Gyeonggi province, there are numerous dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets, and restaurants where the dogs, who are 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.
Video: Six hundred dogs suffer at a dog farm operated by a Korean Dog Farmers Association official in Yeoju. On March 3rd, the Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE), CatchDog, and Sniper Anttol teams raided this large dog farm in Yeoju, Gyeonggi Province. CARE Part 1.
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A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Gyeonggi Province’s dog meat demand.
Two searches on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – one was for so-called “Health Centers” that 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 hundreds of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in Gyeonggi Province.
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 Gyeonggi Province to supply these outlets.
There are laws in South Korea against selling dogs and cats for consumption, yet these laws are blatantly ignored.
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Call for Action
- 📧 Send emails to the Premier and Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs:
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📧 CC (Carbon Copy) email to the Gyeonggi Provincial Council and the South Korean National Assembly members.
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- 📬 Send letters.
The Honorable Premier David Eby
PO BOX 9041 STN PROV GOVT
VICTORIA, BC V8W 9E1
Canada📬 The Office of the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia recommends that we contact Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs:
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, PC, MP
Minister of Foreign Affairs, House of Commons
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Canada📬 Send a copy of your letter to Gyeonggi Province:
Governor Kim Dong-yeon
Gyeonggi Province
30 Docheong-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do
Postal Code 16508
South Korea📬 Gyeonggi Province’s address in Korean:
김동연 경기도지사님
경기도청
(16508) 경기도 수원시 영통구 도청로 30
South Korea - ☎️ Call the British Columbia’ Premier’s office: 250-387-1715 Fax: 250-387-0087
☎️ The Office of the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia recommends that we contact Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Honourable Mélanie Joly, PC, MP:
Telephone: 613 992-0983
Facsimile: 613 992-1932 - Post on X!
.@ggholic .@dy_future #BritishColumbia Premier .@Dave_Eby Tell Sister Province, #Gyeonggi #SouthKorea you oppose the torture and consumption of #dogs #cats 🐾 https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ😢https://vimeo.com/754160791 😭 https://chng.it/tJZfW6wg📣https://koreandogs.org/gyeonggi-bc/
British Columbia: Please tell your Sister Province, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, that you oppose the torture and consumption of dogs and cats.
Dear the Honorable Premier Eby,
As representatives of British Columbia, we implore you to reconsider your Sister Province partnership with Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, a province 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:
Part 1 of 2: https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ
Part 2 of 2: https://vimeo.com/754160791
Forest fire in Uljin burns dogs imprisoned in dog meat farms: https://youtu.be/mh1lEGt2gjU
https://youtu.be/GLLeI_XFNPg
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/
Despite the passage of the “Special Bill to end the breeding, slaughter, and distribution of dogs for consumption and dog meat consumption” by South Korea’s National Assembly on January 9, 2024, which mandates a three-year grace period for all operations to cease, the situation remains dire. Dogs confined in dog farms in Gyeonggi Province and across South Korea continue to suffer immensely.
For example, six hundred dogs are horribly abused at a dog farm in Yeoju, Gyeonggi Province, operated by officials of the Korean Dog Farmers Trade Association. Thousands of dogs endure unbearable conditions at a massive dog farm in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, operated by a former Korean Dog Farmers Trade Association president. These and numerous other dog farms and dog slaughterhouses in Gyeonggi Province continue to operate in violation of multiple existing laws. For their entire lives, dogs are confined to cramped wire cages raised off the ground, depriving them of the ability even to turn around. They never experience what it’s like to stand on solid ground.
With limited resources, animal advocates tirelessly investigate legal violations, file complaints, and pressure governments to enforce laws and shut down illegal dog farms. However, the government has the primary responsibility for enforcement, and its response has been inadequate, demonstrating a shameful indifference to animal suffering.
Gyeonggi Province is the largest dog meat supplier and consumption province in South Korea. There are numerous dog farms and dog slaughterhouses in Gyeonggi Province. Korean web searches turn up hundreds 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, 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. They are fed rotten, moldy garbage full of chili peppers unfit for any animals to eat, and they are not given water. 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 Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon to shut down all 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 South Korea is in progress: https://chng.it/tJZfW6wg.
Thank you for your serious consideration. We eagerly await your reply.
Sincerely,
[Your name, city, country]
Hello, I’m calling to speak to someone in the Premier’s Office to ask for their help on an important issue regarding your Sister Province, Gyeonggi Province, in South Korea.
If I could explain, Dog meat consumption is currently being practiced in that province, 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. I believe that your Province would wish to be made aware of this issue, as you would not want to affiliate with a province where illegal and immoral torture is being carried out on any animal, particularly not on ones that are loyal, trusting creatures, which look up to us humans as their guardians.
Gyeonggi Province authorities allow this illegal industry to continue despite growing opposition from pet guardians across South Korea and worldwide.
So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in Gyeonggi Province to urge them to enforce their laws, not ignore them, show compassion to their companion animals, and respect their citizens by bringing this cruel industry 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.
No matter where you live, PLEASE SHARE these actions with your friends, especially those who live in British Columbia! 🙏
STOP THIS EVIL
Disgraceful how humans behave. Cruelty and abuse are what they seem to love just to feed others, for commercial purposes. Animals can’t help being born. They are just souls in helpless bodies.
Stop the torturous activity immediately. It is against all laws of morality. It is equal to human trafficking xxx
There is no excuse for animal abuse the fact that people are still running farms where these poor sweet innocent animals are being kept in cages and butcher. It just breaks my heart. This has to end please these animals to serve forever, loving homes not to be cruel, murdered eaten, it’s just sick man
This is pure evil..
SHAME on you South Korea!
You are HUMAN MONSTERS, worse than Satan himself.
I had my doubts that this evil trade would truly cease. Obviously the South Korean Government were not strict enough with enforcing the ban, as some people are clearly not paying attention to it.
Lopettakaa tuo kamaluus , Stop this evil !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s so sad to think that so many doesn’t see or think that this is an evil business. Without a conscience and a soul, life is just to exist with no hope of joy and love to give or to receive. Thank goodness for CARE, the angels that prove that compassion and pity is there to save the victims of such grotesque cruelty.
This should never have been. Animal activist have been trying to get these so called farms shut down for a long time. This needs to end now.
Que ces monstres soient damnés !!
Boycott this country you can tell what a country is like by the way they treat their animals.!!
Es können keine Menschen sein, die hilflosen Mitgeschöpfen solch ein Leid zufügen. Die Regierung von Südkorea ist wieder einmal gefragt, endlich hart durchzugreifen, damit die Hunde/Katzen Höllen für immer geschlossen werden.Eine große Schande für das Land! Wir leben im 21.Jahrhundert und nicht mehr im Mittelalter!
I thought we were done with this disgrace!!!! I just can NOT believe that I am still signing these petitions!!! What is wrong with this country!!!!
Pourquoi toute cette souffrance le chien est capable de détecter des maladies très grave comme le cancer il sert de guide pour les aveugles comment osez vous les traiter de la sorte savez vous seulement que cette souffrance que vous faites endurer à ces êtres d’une bonté sans norme vous devrez en rendre des comptes à la hauteur de la souffrance que vous leur faites endurer je prie pour cela nous prions pour que la facture de vos actes vous reviennent en retour prennez le temps de réfléchir a vos actes prennez ce temps car il vous sera compté.
ALL NATIONS MUST STAND UP AND TAKE A STAND AGAINST THIS CRUELTY AND DEMAND IT BE STOPPED OTHERWISE THEY MUST ALL HANG THEIR HEADS IN ABSOLUTE SHAME.
“Dog farms” are great disgrace to Korea! They are animal concentration camps that make Koreans look like cannibals! They all must end NOW!!!
This cruel, dishonorable
STOP obscene HORROR to Animals —