[Campaign closed] Call for Action: Shut down the illegal dog auction house occupying government land in Paju!
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Call for Action: Paju, Please, immediately shut down the illegal dog auction house occupying the Korean Ministry of Defense property and impose heavy penalties and fines for the violations!
A โmeat dogโ auction house, located in Paju Geomsan-dong 9-1 area (ํ์ฃผ์๊ฒ์ฐ๋ 9-1 ์ผ๋) has been operating for the past two years, illegally occupying the Korean Ministry of Defenseโs property.
Even though the Paju Dog Auction House was in the process of being served with an administrative order for restoration, as well as a criminal prosecution due to civil complaints that had been filed with the Paju City Hall the previous September, the owner stated that he would pay the fine and continue to operate the auction house.
Before moving to this location, this dog auction house was in Namyangju, illegally occupying government land. This is a repeated pattern of illegal occupation of government land and violation of the Animal Protection Act.
Please take action TODAY to demand immediate action by the Paju government and the Ministry of Defense to immediately shut down the illegal dog auction house and punish all the violators.

Call for Action
- ๐ Click HERE to file a petition with the South Korean government through e-People online. (You can use our โSuggested messageโ below or use your own words.)
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Subject: Please, immediately shut down the illegal dog auction house occupying the Korean Ministry of Defense property in Paju and impose heavy penalties and fines for the violations!
Online petition: Shut down the illegal dog auction house occupying government land in Paju!
http://chng.it/mZ2mS7fYTfTo: The City of Paju, Korean Ministry of Defense, Supreme Prosecutorโs Office,
Please watch the news below:
Dog auction house operating on “Blind Spot”,.. Even on military-owned land?, KBS News, 9/15/2019. (โ๋จ์ ์ฌ๊ฐ์ง๋โ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ ํ๊ฐโฆ่ป ์์ ๋ ์์๊น์ง? / KBS๋ด์ค)
https://youtu.be/C6svoHlN2WMWhen the โillegal dog auction houseโ is shut downโฆ Relocate to another city and continuing business, JTBC News, 10/24/2019. (‘๋ถ๋ฒ ์์ฉ๊ฒฌ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ’ ํ์๋์โฆ์ฅ์ ์ฎ๊ฒจ ๋ฒ์ ์ด ์์ )
https://youtu.be/UUXx2YKM5xoUnauthorized occupation of government land, โIf I squat, itโs my landโ, KBS, 5/18/2021. (๊ตญ์ ์ง ๋ฌด๋จ์ ์ ์คํ, ‘๋ฒํฐ๋ฉด ๋ด ๋ ’ KBS 210518 ๋ฐฉ์ก)
https://youtu.be/jwSVTL25mE0“If I squat, it will become my land”… Unauthorized occupation of government land throughout the country, TV Chosun News, 5/7/2021.(“๋ฒํฐ๋ฉด ๋ด ๋ ๋๋ค”โฆ์ ๊ตญ ๊ณณ๊ณณ ๊ตญ์ ์ง ๋ฌด๋จ ์ ์ [ํ์ฅ์ถ์ ])
https://youtu.be/xCJWIpD9gxIThis dog auction house (dogs are sold for meat), located in Paju Geomsan-dong 9-1 area (ํ์ฃผ์๊ฒ์ฐ๋ 9-1 ์ผ๋) has been in operation for the past two years, illegally occupying the Korean Ministry of Defenseโs land. Many animal activists have reported this place to your city, but you have not yet shut it down.
These criminals are threatening to burn down the homes of the neighbors who report them.
Before moving to this location, this dog auction house was in Namyangju, illegally occupying government land. This is a repeated pattern of illegal occupation of government land and violation of the Animal Protection Act, and calls for immediate action by the Paju government.
Please shut down the illegal dog auction house immediately and arrest and punish all violators.
Suggested message in Korean (Please include this in your petition.)
Subject: ํ์ฃผ์ ๊ฒ์ฐ๋ 9-1์ ์์นํ ๋ถ๋ฒ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ์ ํ์ํ๊ณ , ๋ฒ๋ฒ์๋ค์ ๊ตฌ์ํ์ฌ ์ฒ๋ฒํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์์ฒญํฉ๋๋ค!
์ ์์ฒญ์: ํ์ฃผ์ ๊ฒ์ฐ๋ 9-1์ ์์นํ ๋ถ๋ฒ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ์ ํ์ํ๊ณ , ๋ฒ๋ฒ์๋ค์ ๊ตฌ์ํ์ฌ ์ฒ๋ฒํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์์ฒญํฉ๋๋ค!
http://chng.it/mZ2mS7fYTfํ์ฃผ์, ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ๋ถ, ๊ฒ์ฐฐ์ ์ฒญ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
์ฐ์ ์๋์ ๋ด์ค์์์ ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋ก ๋ด์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
๋จ์ ์ฌ๊ฐ์ง๋โ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ ํ๊ฐโฆ่ป ์์ ๋ ์์๊น์ง?, KBS ๋ด์ค, 9/15/2019.
https://youtu.be/C6svoHlN2WMโ๋ถ๋ฒ ์์ฉ๊ฒฌ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅโ ํ์๋์โฆ์ฅ์ ์ฎ๊ฒจ ๋ฒ์ ์ด ์์ , JTBC News, 10/24/2019.
https://youtu.be/UUXx2YKM5xo๊ตญ์ ์ง ๋ฌด๋จ์ ์ ์คํ, โ๋ฒํฐ๋ฉด ๋ด ๋ โ KBS 210518 ๋ฐฉ์ก
https://youtu.be/jwSVTL25mE0โ๋ฒํฐ๋ฉด ๋ด ๋ ๋๋คโโฆ์ ๊ตญ ๊ณณ๊ณณ ๊ตญ์ ์ง ๋ฌด๋จ ์ ์ [ํ์ฅ์ถ์ ] TV ์กฐ์ ๋ด์ค, 5/7/2021
https://youtu.be/xCJWIpD9gxIํ์ฃผ์ ๊ฒ์ฐ๋ 9-1 ์ง์ญ์ ์์นํ ์์ฉ๊ฒฌ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ์ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ๋ถ ์์ ํ ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ฒ ์ ์ ํ์ฌ 2๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ ์์ ์ ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์ ๋๋ฌผ๋ณดํธ๊ฐ์ ๋จ์ฒด๊ฐ ํ์ฃผ์์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ์์๋ ์์ง๋ ์์ ์ ์ง์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ค์ ์ฌ์ง์ด ์ ๊ณ ํ๋ฉด ์ง์ ๋ถํ์๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ์ด์๋ค์ ํ๋ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฃผ๋ก ์ด์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ ๋จ์์ฃผ์์๋ ์ ๋ถ์ ๋ ์์ ๋ถ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ ์ฅ์ ์ด์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ค์ ์์ต์ ์ธ ์ ๋ถํ ์ง ๋ถ๋ฒ์ ์ ๋ฐ ๋๋ฌผ๋ณดํธ๋ฒ ์๋ฐ์ ๋ํ ํ์ฃผ์์ ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๋์์ ์๊ตฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฆ์ ๋ถ๋ฒ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ์ ํ์ํ๊ณ , ๋ฒ๋ฒ์๋ค์ ๊ตฌ์ํ์ฌ ์ฒ๋ฒํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์์ฒญํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋ชฉ : ํ์ฃผ์๋ ์ด์ ๋ผ๋ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์์ฉ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ์ ์ ์์กฐ์ฌ. ๋จ์ํ์ฌ ์ฒ๋ฒํ์ญ์์ค.
๋์ด์๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค์ ๊ณต๊ธํ๋ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์์ฉ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ฃผ์ ์์ฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ค์ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ ๋ถ์ณ ๊ฐ์ฒ์ ๋ชจ์ฌ๋ ๊ฐ ๋์ด์๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ณต๊ธํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ค์ด ํ๊ธ๊ฑฐ๋๋ก ํ์๋๊ธด ๊ฐ๋ค์ ๋์ด์์ ์์ ๋๊ฒจ์ ธ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ ์จ์ด๋ ๊ฐ๋์ด์ฅ์์ ์ฐธํนํ๊ฒ ๋์ด๋๊ณ , ๋ชจ๋์์ฅ ๋ฑ ๊ฐ์ฒ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์, ๋ณด์ ํ์ง์ผ๋ก ๊ณต๊ธ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ฃผ์๋ ๊ฐ์์ฉ ๊ธ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฒํ ํ๋ผ๋ ๋ํต๋ น์ ์ง์์ ๋ฐ๋ง์ถ์ด ํด๋น์์ ์์ฌํ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์์ฉ ๊ฒฝ๋งค์ฅ์ ์ ์์กฐ์ฌ. ๋จ์ํ์ฌ ์ฒ๋ฒํ์ญ์์ค.
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Video: Animal Rescue Korea 119 (ARK119). ARK119 held a press conference urging the closure of the illegal dog auction market in Paju. The auction house people are obstructing the press conference with violence.
Shut down the Paju Illegal Dog Auction House!
On October 24, 2019, Animal Rescue Korea 119 (ARK119) (Director Im Yeong-Ki), together with about 10 animal activists, held a press conference to shut down the illegal โmeat dogโ auction house in Paju Geomsan-dong 9-1.
Even though the Paju Dog Auction House was in the process of being served with an administrative order for restoration, as well as a criminal prosecution due to civil complaints that had been filed with the Paju City Hall the previous September, the owner stated that he would pay the fine and continue to operate the auction house.
As a result, ARK119 decided to hold a press conference in an attempt to shut the auction house down.
The Paju Dog Auction House is open every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, with auctions starting at 1:30 pm.
The press conference, which started at 12:00 noon, was temporarily interrupted due to abuse, harassment, and violent physical attacks from the auction house officials.
Even as the press conference was going on, trucks were quickly arriving, one after another, in order to meet the scheduled auction time. Butchers who won the bids filled their cargo compartments with dogs, including quite a few young puppies.
In a single auction, a minimum of 200 dogs, up to a maximum of 500 dogs, are traded. The butchers slaughter the dogs at their illegal slaughterhouses and deliver the dog meat to restaurants.
Im Yeong-Ki, Director of ARK119, said, โDogs are being sold through 10 illegal auction houses across the country. We will find and shut down all the places where dogs are illegally traded and slaughtered.โ
Meanwhile, ARK119 closed the Gimpo โmeat dogโ Auction House in August.
2019.10.25 Animal Rescue Korea 119
Tuo on hirveรคtรค mitรค te teette !
This government of South Korea is fundamentally immoral to allow such cruelty to animals. In fact it is dysfunctional. Only poor backward, or so called conservative countries allow such cruelty. I am sure that this image of South Korea has effect on the sale on imports to countries that they do business with. Many countries, unfortunately, kill animals for their people but the their government, through legislation, controls animal cruelty.
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This is appalling in this day and age – who does this kind of thing.
Please stop. Dogs are our best friends, not our food.
This makes me SICK…………. it makes me cry…………..I don’t want anything in my home that comes from any country or any people who allow or cast a blind eye to this. Dogs are the most loyal, most loving, most protective animals. They assist people who need physical help, they have saved many people’s lives……….PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE STOP THIS! There are a lot of SICK humans who could learn much from the dogs in this world! Meanwhile, I want NOTHING in my home or in my life that is made in a country that allows this. Disgusting………..and heartbreaking.
These actions are crimes against humanity and all life on this planet.
If you wouldn’t want to be caged, beaten, brutalized or skinned alive, then you shouldn’t do it or allow it to happen to another living thing. The country of South Korea is sickening!! Uneducated idiots!!!
I agree with ALL your words
Please stop the cruelty! They/ anybody deserves this is horrible!
Please donโt commit such horrendous acts of cruelty. They deserve to live, just like we all do. Every single life is precious and must be protected. Stop killing them. You donโt need to kill to eat. Look at their petrified faces. They deserve to be cared for, know what living is all about and not about being held captive, mistreated and killedโฆโฆ.
These are messages from people that are humane not money grabbing greedy madmen.
You can judge a culture by the way it is treating it’s animals. Shame on South Korea.
STOP depraved HORROR to Dogs and Cats — KILL your absurd, superstitious MINDSET — we have enough options on our plates – SHUT DOWN all DOG MEAT farms, slaughterhouses & markets — thank you for footage bringing this HORROR to light โwe MUST PROTECT our Dogs and Cats — I am vehemently against the depraved brutality, sadistic abuse to Animals — STOP the INSANE, unconscionable, immoral brutality โ we have enough food on our Menus — STOP the KILLING.
This is so so cruel and sick. How can anyone live with themselves by doing this. Totally unacceptable!
I filed the epetition and sent the email to all the recipients. Unfortunately a few dozen emails were rejected. Probably overfull inboxes.
Barbaric imbeciles