Seoul, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets.
Seoul Mayor Park Won-Soon
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.
In Seoul, 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 subjected to the same cruelty.
Video: ‘Street of Horror’ Dog slaughterhouses in the heart of Seoul
Video: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea
A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Seoul’s dog meat demand.
Two search results on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – the first one was for so-called “Health Food Shops” 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”: 929 Health Food Shops; and 574 restaurants in and around Seoul.
Even if half of these ‘Health’ Food Shops and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, just imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be present in and around Seoul in order 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.
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Mayor Park Won-Soon
Seoul Metropolitan Government
Saejong-daero 110, Jung-gu, Seoul, Postal Code 04524
South KoreaAddress in Korean:
서울특별시 박원순 시장님
서울시청
04524 서울특별시 중구 세종대로 110
South KoreaSeoul Metropolitan Council
Saejong-daero 125, Jung-gu, Seoul, Postal Code 04519
South KoreaAddress in Korean:
서울특별시의회
(04519) 서울특별시 중구 세종대로 125
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Subject: Seoul, South Korea
Dear Mayor Park Won-Soon and the Seoul Metropolitan Council members,
We ask that you please watch this: https://koreandogs.org/street-horror-dog-slaughterhouses-heart-seoul/
Please watch this documentary, “The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea” https://youtu.be/cCdTceduKcY.
We ask you to take immediate action to crack down on the illegal dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets and restaurants that serve dog meat in your city. We request that an official document be issued, mandating that the following existing Korean laws be enforced by its government officials, police and judges:
Unauthorized processing of food waste fed to dogs in the meat trade is a violation of the Wastes Control Act, Article 15-2, Article 25, Section 3. Suppliers of food waste and transporters of food waste to dog meat farms are violating this regulation.
Food waste fed to dogs in the dog meat trade is a violation of the Control of Livestock and Fish Feed Act, Article 14, Section 1 & 2. Unauthorized collection of food waste and the act of feeding it to dogs in the meat trade is in violation of this regulation.
Excrement and resulting environmental damage produced as a by-product of the illegal dog meat farm is a violation of the Act on the Management and Use of Livestock Excreta Article 11. The excrement produced at dog meat farms causes environmental damage to the immediate and surrounding area.
The act of the slaughtering of dogs for human consumption is a violation of the Animal Protection Act Article 8, Section 1, Clause 4. The act of the slaughtering of a dog, without justifiable ground – such as out of necessity for veterinary treatment, or in circumstances of immediate threat, harm or damage to human life or property, is a violation.
The slaughter of dogs by electrocution is a violation of the Animal Protection Act, Article 8, Section 1, Clause 1. Inflicting injury or death to any animal by the following means: battery by tools, exposure to drugs, exposure to extreme heat or fire, electrocution and drowning is subject to legal punishment. Therefore, the routine slaughter of dogs by butchers and farmers by these methods is in violation of the Act. Further, electrocution as a method of slaughter is internationally recognized as an inherently cruel method of slaughter and banned globally.
The slaughter of dogs from an unauthorized slaughterhouse is a violation of Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act, Article 7 Section 1. The Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act, states that dogs are officially recognized and classified as “animals” that are “prohibited from being slaughtered and distributed as food for human consumption”. Therefore, those vendors operating dog slaughterhouses are operating outside of the parameters of the law and in violation of the law.
The slaughter of dogs for his/her own consumption is a violation of the Animal Protection Act, Article 10. The intent of the Act is to ensure that no animal is slaughtered in a cruel or revolting manner, and shall be free from unnecessary pain, fear, or stress during the process of slaughter. Therefore, the only humane way of slaughtering dogs would be by euthanasia (lethal injection). All currently practiced methods of slaughter by butchers, farmers and traders excludes euthanasia as a method of slaughter, therefore they are all in breach of this Act. This is also a violation of the Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act Article 7 Section 1 Clause 2.
According to the Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act, the slaughter of animals for his/her own consumption is allowed only for the livestock animals that are publically announced as classification of livestock in the Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act and dogs are not classified here.
The display and sale of dog carcasses in traditional outdoor markets is a violation of the Food Sanitation Act, Article 4, 5. Violation of laws banning the sale of harmful food due to the contamination from unsanitary and illegal slaughter of the animal and display of the dog carcass. For example, dog carcasses are routinely contaminated by microorganisms that cause human diseases and food poisoning; this can lead to serious and life threatening health complications. There are also strict laws that ban the sale of meat from sick animals, due to the fact that there is no quality control or formal monitoring of slaughter practices in the dog meat trade it is very likely that violation of these laws is happening routinely.
Dog meat restaurants’ sale of dog meat soup made with dog carcasses from an unknown source is a violation of Food Sanitation Act Article 44 Section 1 Clause 1. Uninspected livestock products must not be transported, stored, displayed, sold or used for manufacturing or processing of food for human consumption.
Please refer to the legal information regarding the dog meat consumption in South Korea published by KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates): https://www.ekara.org/activity/against/read/7537 https://koreandogs.org/kara-publishes-legal-information-booklet-ending-dog-meat-consumption/
The United States House of Representatives has formally passed H.Res. 401, “Calls for an end to the dog and cat meat industry and urges all nations to outlaw the dog and cat meat trade.” (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/401)
International coverage of the brutal dog and cat meat trade in South Korea has stained your city’s image. An online petition calling for your immediate action to end the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/seoul-south-korea-shut-down-the-illegal-dog-meat-farms-slaughterhouses-and-markets
The time to end this tragedy is now. The favor of your reply is requested.
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[Update: January 4, 2019] Click HERE to see the Seoul’s response.
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Dont your country have any form or way to solve this problem. This is sick nonsense the dogs are raised in fear and die suffering. Such a sick country you guys are. I will never by Samsung or any products or ever have any respect for your country. Sick bastards. Your people deserve to be tortured and killed.
I agree!
See how G-d responds. He will erase tortorer and replace sinners with moral and ethic humans. Therefore you once be on their place to pay your bill.
I wish to natural disaster on them 3 weeks ago and it actually happened. That’s not the only time I’ve wished natural disasters on countries that are totally cruel to animals. Dubai was another one. They had an earthquake. Keep pushing s*** on these people and it’s bound to happen God’s not going to put up with this any longer they have been doing this for thousands of years. He put these animals and all this Beauty on this Earth for us to enjoy not to make it suffer. I have had it with those subhuman species and they are demons. Yellow skin slant-eyed demons. For the most part anything that comes out of that side of the world are demonic.
I agree!
BOYCOTT ALL SOUTH KOREAN PRODUCTS, WRITE THE COMPANIES AND THE GOVERNMENT THERE>
I’d like to send a infected animal to ruin there whole nation!!!!!! Everyone die!!🖕🏼
I agree in all points!
Schande über das Land Süd Korea – es sind keine Menschen, die hilflosen Mitgeschöpfen Gottes solche unsäglichen Leiden und Schmerzen zufügen – es sind Bastarde, Monster und Bestien in Menschengestalt. Pfui Süd Korea – Eine Schande für die gesamte Menschheit! Totaler Boykott aller Waren und des Landes selbst!
MANY Koreans are very much opposed to the dog & cat meat trade. There are many Korean activists, who risk their lives to save animals. Let’s honour them.
Have done everything you ask on this page. Please everyone you need to do the same to end the dog meat trade in South Korea
Oh Lord please have mercy on the terrible suffering endured by your creatures. May there be swift and severe punishment meted out to those involved. May Koreans learn to be merciful to all animals who feel pain and terror just as much as we do.
This is ABSOLUTE CRUELTY !! DO U PRACTICE any relegion at all?? SHAME ON YOU SOUTH KOREA
Cruel people, you are disgusting the way you treat animals, no respect for other beings. I hope that if there is a God you will suffer in hell.
it is morally unacceptable for South Korea to support the enormous suffering of dogs and cats that are brutally killed, have no good living conditions. The only solution is for the government to take responsibility for it and take steps to stop such cruelty.
May you all suffer the pain that you have merged out there is no place in God s heaven for you sick bastards….BURN N HELL
You are a sick, disgusting, ignorant people….NEVER again will I purchase ANYTHING made in Korea. You should all hang your heads in shame — better yet, hang the subhumans who ar involved with this suffering, and also the people who eat these poor creatures.
If there is a God, I would be worried if I were you! What you do to His animals is not going to please Him. What will happen to you when you leave the earth? He is watching you- respect and care for His creatures!
We need to unite together internationally and exterminate each and everyone of these ugly,slant eye, filthbag asian dog and cat murderers!
Dogs and cats are pets. Don’t you have a heart? Take a minute and just look at them….it’s heartbreaking what you do to them. It’s not enough to be humans; you must be humane.
I hope the korean people realize that this sickness will result in its own terrible karma for the perpetrators of this horrendous cruelty.
We have to stop cruelty.
DOGS ARE BY NATURE LOVING, GENTLE, AND KIND CREATURES. THEY HAVE FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS, AND THEY SUFFER GREATLY WHEN MISTREATED BY HUMANS. — ALL FORMS OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS MUST BE STOPPED, AND ALL THE PERPETRATORS OF SUCH MUST BE BROUGHT TO FULL JUSTICE! — ALL ANIMALS WERE PLACED HERE ON EARTH BY A WISE AND LOVING CREATOR TO BE COMPANIONS FOR HUMANS. THEY ARE TO BE CARED FOR AND PROTECTED. ALL ANIMALS WANT TO GIVE AND RECEIVE LOVE FROM HUMANS, WHICH IS NATURAL FOR THEM. — THE HIDEOUS, INHUMAN, STUPID, DESPICABLE, SENSELESS, CRUEL, HEARTLESS, INSANE, SAVAGE, MANIAC MORONS THAT INTENTIONALLY MISTREAT, BEAT, TORTURE, INJURE, AND/OR SLAUGHTER INNOCENT HELPLESS DOGS ARE DESERVING OF THE HARSHEST AND SEVEREST PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR WICKED CRIMES. THEIR ACTS TOWARD INNOCENT POOR DOGS ARE TOTALLY HORRIFIC, BRUTAL, CALLOUS, REVOLTING, BARBARIC, AND EVIL! THE EATING OF DOGS IS EXTREMELY DECADENT, SAVAGE, BESTIAL, INHUMAN, AND CRUDE. THESE PEOPLE’S CHARACTERS ARE EVIDENCE OF THE DEMONIC MONSTERS THEY ARE. — ALL THOSE GUILTY OF DOING SUCH ATROCIOUS THINGS MUST BE FOUND AND CAUGHT, AND SEVERE PUNISHMENT MUST BE SERVED UPON THEM IN RETRIBUTION FOR WHAT THESE POOR DOGS HAVE SUFFERED, AND ALSO TO INSURE THAT NOT ONLY THEIRS BUT POTENTIONALLY ANY OTHERS HEINOUS CRUEL ACTS TOWARD INNOCENT ANIMALS BE PERMANENTLY ENDED! SUCH PEOPLE’S VIOLENT AND SADISTIC NATURES CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THEY ARE A DETRIMENT AND A POTENTIAL DANGER TO CIVILIZED SOCIETY! THEIR PUNISHMENT MUST BE WIDELY PUBLICIZED AS A DETERRENT TO ANY OTHERS WHO MIGHT BE CONSIDERING DOING THE SAME. — STRICT LAWS MUST BE IMPLEMENTED AND ENFORCED TO INSURE THAT SUCH ATROCITIES WILL NEVER OCCUR AGAIN! — LASTLY, A WELL ORGANIZED EFFORT MUST BE EMPLOYED TO INSURE THAT ALL SUCH DOGS THAT SUCCUMB TO THIS FATE ARE RESCUED, LOVINGLY AND TENDERLY TREATED FOR ANY INJURIES THEY MAY HAVE INCURRED, AND KEPT IN A LOVING ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY WILL BE PROPERLY CARED FOR.
This is beyond disturbing! SHUT DOWN THE DOG MEAT FARMS
End the brutality of your so-called ‘culture’ NOW!
Please shut down all slaughter houses all restaurants all shops end this barbaric atrocious evil cruelty towards pitiful helpless dogs and cats caged up then butchered they aren’t pets not food please step in and end this please
Save the poor cute animals
This is horrendous. The whole planet knows that dogs/cats are man’s best friends. These loving animals are the inspiration for people to become vegans. So please don’t come with the pathetic “cultural difference” excuse. A country that enjoys the torture of dogs/cats simply accepts cruelty to all animals as normal. We want the extreme opposite. Using people’s love for dogs/cats to stop eating all animals and go vegan.
Please stop your shameful atrocities, South Korea. I am boycotting your companies (Samsung, Hyundai, LG, Kia Motors) until you ban it forever.
Writing to you from Brazil, with disgust !!
Stop the dog and cat comsuption !
Stop this cruel and disgusting practice!
Stop the killing and change to humanity!
“A society is judged by the way it treats its animals” – Mahatma Gandhi
Save poor vats and dogs, please! They’re so cute animals!
For thousands of years man has bred dogs to be man’s loyal companion. What kind of barbaric ignorant people would do this to them? I or my family will not purchase anything made in South Korea or China as in Kia, Hyundai, LG, Samsung and others as long as dogs are treated in this way. If it’s made in an evil backward dog eating country don’t buy it. There are plenty of other more civilized nations.
Please stop this inhumane treatment of Dogs.
It breaks my 💓.
They are so loyal to their owners, and they are extremely intelligent animals.
Stop this brutal killing! You dont need this! Think!
stop this horrific killing PLEASE
Please stop this cruelty on innocent dogs, best friends of humans.
Stop this horrible cruelty now!
Stop
Stop this cruel practise NOW!
Stop this inhuman activity
STOP PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have left messages with seoul municipal government, seoul council and the governor. millions worldwide are boycotting. we will never stop shouting and fighting for justice for these dogs and cats.
Please end this cruelty make new laws and punish the people who hurt these animals they are not food please stop this I never see such evil this is wrong you have to stop this these dogs and cats were breed to be companions to people they are alive and have feelings this evil cruelty just has to end the people of Korea need guidance and other options to find food and produce food for the people not this way this videos I been seeing are the worst I could ever even imagine a person doing to a animal your country has to find a better way to feed your people and punish animal abusers I love animals I just can not stay quiet and not speak for them please do everything you can to stop this its very disturbing and evil
This haunts me everyday. What is wrong with these people. Please stop this!
Your country is morally deranged! Stop harming innocent animals in the most barbaric way!! You need to teach your people compassion for innocent animals and learn to live in harmony with animals. You live like savages, it’s time to progress and become human beings!