Sister City Campaign – Incheon, South Korea – Honolulu, Hawaii
Campaign updated on January 20, 2022.
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi: Tell your Sister City, Incheon, 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.
Incheon became a Sister City with Honolulu, Hawaii in 2003.
In Incheon, there are countless 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: Videos from Incheon, Munhak-dong Dog Farm and Slaughterhouses. SaveKoreanDogs.org.
Below are more livestream videos from CARE investigating dog farms in a village in Incheon Seo-gu district:
https://www.facebook.com/CAREanimalKorea/posts/6509364799077320
https://www.facebook.com/CAREanimalKorea/posts/6508968219116978
https://www.facebook.com/CAREanimalKorea/posts/6509173292429804
Video: Incheon Ganghwado Dog Farm
A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Incheon’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 many hundreds of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in Incheon.
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 Incheon to supply all of these outlets.
There are laws in South Korea against selling dogs and cats for consumption, yet these laws are blatantly ignored.
👉 Click HERE to watch the video.😢 Incheon Ganghwa-gun Government must rescue all 500 dogs from hellscape illegal dog farm!
Call for Action
- 📧 Click HERE to send an online message to the Mayor of Honolulu.
- 📧 Send emails to the mayor and the Honolulu City Council members.
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Send the CC (Carbon Copy) email to the Incheon Metropolitan Council, Gyeonggi-do Assembly and the South Korean National Assembly, Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, Oceans, and Fisheries Committee members:
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Office of the Mayor Rick Blangiardi
530 South King Street, Room 300
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
USAHonolulu City Council
530 South King Street
Honolulu Hale, Room 202
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
USASend a copy of your letter to Incheon:
Mayor Park Nam-Chun
Incheon City Hall
29, Jeonggak-ro, Namdong-gu, Incheon
Postal Code 21554
South KoreaAddress in Korean:
박남춘 인천시장님
인천시청
(21554) 인천광역시 남동구 정각로 29
South KoreaIncheon Metropolitan Council
29, Jeonggak-ro, Namdong-gu, Incheon
Postal Code 21554
South KoreaAddress in Korean:
인천광역시의회
(21554) 인천광역시 남동구 정각로 29
South Korea - ☎️ Call the Honolulu Mayor’s office: Telephone: (808) 768-4141, Fax: (808) 768-5552
- Send a Twitter message!
[email protected] [email protected]_council [email protected]_gov [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tell Sister City #Incheon #SouthKorea that you are opposed to the torture of #dogs #cats🐾 https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ😢https://vimeo.com/754160791😭https://chng.it/WpgQb6kD https://koreandogs.org/incheon-sister-city-honolulu/
Subject: Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi: Tell your Sister City, Incheon, South Korea, that you are opposed to the torture and consumption of dogs and cats.
Dear Mayor Rick Blangiardi and Honolulu City Council members:
We ask you to please watch the undercover videos from South Korea’s dog meat industry:
Part 1 of 2: https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ
Part 2 of 2: https://vimeo.com/754160791
https://koreandogs.org/jtbc-news-electric-tortured-in-cages/
https://koreandogs.org/ark119-raids-ganghwa-dog-farm/
Do you think Honolulu should be a Sister City to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten by people?
Incheon is one of the largest dog meat consumption and dog meat supplier city in South Korea. There are countless dog farms, dog slaughterhouses, hundreds of dog meat restaurants, and so-called “Health Centers” serving soup made of dog meat as an elixir. Dogs suffer their entire lives in filthy, feces encrusted raised wire cages in utter misery only to be slaughtered in the most horrific ways. They are killed by electrocution, hammer strikes to their head and necks, being hung, 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 Incheon, dogs are killed in full view of other terrified, caged dogs who tremble with terror. In addition, people’s beloved pets are often stolen and sold to these businesses, where they meet the same horrific fate. Dogs and puppies who died of diseases are tossed away like garbage, often left in front of cages to rot while the mother dogs watch and cry out in despair for their dead babies.
The Korean internet searches resulted in hundreds of Health Centers which commonly sell dog/cat elixirs (also known as dog soju and cat soju) and dog meat restaurants in Incheon.
Would you please urge Incheon Mayor Park Nam-Chun to close down all illegal dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets, truckers, and restaurants that serve their products? An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous dog and cat meat cruelty in Incheon is in progress: https://chng.it/WpgQb6kD.
On behalf of all the animals suffering unimaginable cruelty in the dog and cat meat industry, we thank you in advance and await your reply.
Sincerely,
Hello, I’m calling to speak to someone in the Mayor’s Office to ask for their help on an important issue regarding your Sister City, Incheon in South Korea.
If I could explain: Dog-meat consumption is currently being 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, which is why 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 affiliate 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.
This illegal industry is being allowed to continue by Incheon 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 Incheon 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 that 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.
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Please if you can.. take time to end the dogs being HUNG UP AND TORCHED ALIVE… and thrown into boiling water ALIVE.. GOD PLEASE HELP THESE ANIMALS if you can please
Aloha, please stop the abuse and killing of cats and dogs, they’re not just pets but members of the family. Mahalo
We MUST make S. Korea LISTEN and change their ways regarding dogs and cats — they’ll continue their horror UNLESS we find that which will FORCE them to change!
The history of cats and dogs, as far as I know, throughout the world has not been for eating, the relationship that has evolved makes your using them as food, animals with such hearts, is barbaric. Please stop it!!
This madness is getting way, way out of hand!! It must STOP!! Period! End of story!
This is MURDER and has to END NOW. It is illegal and cruel. Dogs and cats were not put on this earth to be tortured and abused. They were not put on this earth for human consumption.
Those involved should be prosecuted and imprisoned for there act of cruelty. .we have to shut down these illegal farms NOW.
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Tens of thousands Europeans boycott South Korea and as tourists we boycott South Korea to as long as the trade and consumption of dog and cat meat exists in your SHAME-country!
Stop this barbaric cruelty and murder of Dogs and Cats for meat. There is no need for such a great country as South Korea to be doing this meat trade, it’s absolutely evil and brings shame your country around the world.