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ASML: Please tell your Partner, Samsung Electronics and South Korea, that you oppose the torture, killing, 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.

CNBC News reported on 12/13/2023 that “Dutch manufacturer of chip-making equipment ASML will jointly invest 1 trillion South Korean won ($760 million) with South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics to build a plant that develops cutting-edge semiconductor processing technology in South Korea. The announcement came as South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is in the Netherlands for a four-day visit which seeks to forge a “semiconductor alliance” between the two countries.”

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of South Korea’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 thousands of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in South Korea.

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 South Korea to supply these outlets.

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

Call for Action

• 📧 Email the ASML.

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  📧 Send the CC (Carbon Copy) email to the South Korean National Assembly members.

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📝 Suggested message

ASML: Please tell your Partner, Samsung Electronics and South Korea, that you oppose the torture, killing, and consumption of dogs and cats.

Dear CEO Mr. Peter Wennink, CTO Mr. Martin van den Brink, and the members of the ASML management:

We ask that you reconsider your plan to invest in South Korea, a country that permits dogs and cats to be horribly abused and brutally killed for human consumption. Due to these barbaric and outdated practices, we ask that ASML cancel your plan to build a plant with Samsung Electronics.

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/
500 Dogs in typical hellish illegal dog farms in South Korea. https://koreandogs.org/ark119-raids-ganghwa-dog-farm/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcMPdOnJ0Vo (Dog farm scene begins at 11:00 minutes)

South Korea consumes millions of dogs each year. There are countless dog farms and dog slaughterhouses in South Korea. Korean web searches turn up thousands 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, maggot-infested 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.

In the United States, 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 Samsung Electronics CEOs Mr. Han Jong-hee and Mr. Kyung Kye-hyun and their management to speak out against dog and cat meat cruelty and urge South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol 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/d8cwrgqqpt.

Thank you for your serious consideration. We eagerly await your reply.

Sincerely,

Your name, city, country

• 📧 Click HERE to send an online message to ASML.

📝 Suggested message-Shortened ✂️

ASML: Please tell your Partner, Samsung Electronics and South Korea, that you oppose the torture, killing, and consumption of dogs and cats. https://koreandogs.org/samsung-asml/. We ask that you cancel your plan to build a plant with Samsung Electronics and invest in South Korea, a country that permits dogs and cats to be horribly abused and brutally killed for human consumption. Petition calling for your support in ending such horrors perpetrated in S. Korea: https://chng.it/d8cwrgqqpt. Thank you.

• 📬 Send a postal letter to ASML.

  President and CEO Peter Wennink and CTO Martin van den Brink
  ASML Veldhoven
  De Run 6501
  5504 DR, Veldhoven
  The Netherlands

  📬 Send a copy of your postal letter to the South Korean President:

  Office of the President
  22 Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu
  Seoul, Postal Code 04383
  South Korea

  📬 South Korean President’s address in Korean:

  대한민국 대통령실
  (04383) 서울특별시 용산구 이태원로 22
  South Korea

  📬 Send a copy of your postal letter to the Samsung Electronics:

  Samsung Electronics Headquarter
  129 Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do
  Postal code 16677
  South Korea

  📬 Samsung Electronics’s address in Korean:

  삼성전자 본사
  경기도 수원시 영통구 삼성로 129
  우편번호 16677
  South Korea

• ☎️ Call the ASML.

  Phone: +31 40 268 3000

☎️ Suggested phone message

Hello, I’m calling to speak to someone in the CEO’s Office to ask for their help on an important issue regarding your plan to invest with Samsung Electronics in South Korea.

If I could explain, dog meat consumption is currently practiced in that country, 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. I am calling today because they cannot speak for themselves. And, I believe that your company would wish to be made aware of this issue, as you would not want to affiliate with a nation 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 South Korean authorities – even though there is growing opposition from pet guardians across South Korea and worldwide.

So, I am asking you to please urge your counterparts at Samsung Electronics to speak out against dog and cat meat cruelty. Also, urge South Korean government 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.

• Send an X (Twitter) message!
  .@ASMLcompany .@SamsungNewsroom .@samsung .@SamsungUS🐕#Samsung #ASML Tell Partnership Country #SouthKorea, you oppose the torture, killing, and consumption of #dogs and #cats 🐾 https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ 😢https://vimeo.com/754160791 ✍🏼https://chng.it/d8cwrgqqpt 💪🏼https://koreandogs.org/samsung-asml/

Video: Dogs who suffered their entire lives are electric tortured and killed in cages—South Korea’s horrific dog meat industry. jtbc News. [추적보도 훅] 철창 갇힌 채 감전사…’먹히기 위해’ 죽어가는 개들 / JTBC 뉴스룸

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