Seoul, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets.
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
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 dog meat restaurants in the vicinity of 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 the vicinity of Seoul 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 Oh Se-Hoon
Seoul Metropolitan Government
Saejong-daero 110, Jung-gu, Seoul, Postal Code 04524
South KoreaAddress in Korean:
오세훈 서울특별시 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, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets.
Online Petition: Seoul, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets.
https://www.change.org/p/seoul-south-korea-shut-down-the-illegal-dog-meat-farms-slaughterhouses-and-marketsDear Oh Se-Hoon Seoul Mayor and the Seoul Metropolitan Council members,
Please watch these documentaries, “The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea” (https://youtu.be/cCdTceduKcY) and “Korea’s Dog Cruelty: Dogs Are Innocent.” (https://youtu.be/qIFAI9uyx64).
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. The 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 slaughtering dogs for human consumption is a violation of the Animal Protection Act Article 8, Section 1, Clause 4. The act of slaughtering a dog without a 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 their own consumption is allowed only for the livestock animals that are publicly 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, leading to severe and life-threatening health complications. There are also strict laws that ban the sale of meat from sick animals. Because there is no quality control or proper monitoring of slaughter practices in the dog meat trade, likely, these laws are routinely violated.
Dog meat restaurants’ sale of dog meat soup made with dog carcasses from an unknown source violates the Food Sanitation Act Article 44 Section 1 Clause 1. Uninspected livestock products must not be transported, stored, displayed, sold, or used to manufacture or process 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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서울시는 불법 개농장, 도축장, 시장, 보신탕집을 폐쇄하라!!!
전자청원: 서울시는 불법 개농장, 도축장, 시장, 보신탕집을 폐쇄하라!
https://www.change.org/p/seoul-south-korea-shut-down-the-illegal-dog-meat-farms-slaughterhouses-and-markets오세훈 서울시장님과 서울시의회 의원님들께 청원합니다!
우선 “대한의 육견인들 (https://youtu.be/cCdTceduKcY)” 과 “한국 댕댕이 잔혹사 : 개는 죄가 없다 (https://youtu.be/qIFAI9uyx64)” 라는 다큐멘터리를 참고로 봐주시기 바랍니다.
서울시는 개고기를 다루는 불법 개농장, 도살장, 시장, 보신탕집, 건강원을 단속하는 즉각적 조치를 취하기를 촉구합니다. 또한 한국정부, 경찰청, 사법기관이 아래와 같은 기존 한국법 시행을 요구하는 공식문서를 발급할 것을 요청합니다.
– 개의 사육단계에서 식용견 사료용으로 음식쓰레기를 무단처리하는 것은 폐기물 관리법 제 15조의 2, 제 25조 3항 위반입니다. 음식물쓰레기 배출자와 운반자들은 이 의무규정을 위반하고 개농장주에게 음식쓰레기를 제공하고 있습니다.
– 허가 없이 음식쓰레기를 수집/운반하여 개에게 급여하는것은 사료관리법 제 14조 1항 및 2항의 위반입니다.
– 불법으로 난립된 개농장에서 배출되는 분뇨로 인한 환경위해는가축분뇨법 제 11조의 위반입니다. 개농장의 배설물은 인근 지역 환경 피해를 유발합니다.
– 식용하기 위한 개도살은 동물보호법 제 8조 1항 4호의 위반입니다. 개도살은 수의학적 처치의 필요나 동물로 인한 사람의 생명, 신체, 재산의 피해를 입은 경우 같은 정당한 사유 없이 동물을 죽이는 행위로 명백한 법 위반 행위입니다.
– 전기감전으로 개를 도살하는 행위는 동물보호법 제 8조 1항 1호의 위반입니다. 도구, 약물 또는 열, 전기, 물을 이용한 상해 행위마저 법적 처벌의 대상인 만큼 당연히 상기 방법에 의한 도살 행위는 위법이며 특히 전기도살은 그 잔인함으로 인해 국제적으로 금지되고 있습니다.
– 무허가 도살장에서 개를 도살하는 행위는 축산물 위생관리법 제 7조 1항 위반입니다. 개는 축산물 위생관리법에서 규정한 ‘도살, 식육으로의 유통이 불가능’한 동물로서 허가받은 도살장이 존재할수가 없습니다. 따라서 개 도살장을 운영하는 공급업체는 법의 매개 변수를 벗어나 법을 위반하고 있는 것입니다.
– 자가소비를 목적으로 개를 도살하는 행위는 동물보호법 제 10조와 축산물 위생관리법 제 7조 1항 2호의 위반입니다. 모든 동물은 잔인한 방법으로 도살되어서는 안되는데, 개도살의 경우 인도적인 방법은 약물주사 외에는 없으므로 현재 한국에서 자행되는 모든 식용 목적 개도살은 잔인한 도살에 해당합니다. 축산물 위생관리법의 ‘자가소비를 위한 도살 허용’은 고시로 정한 축산물 위생관리법상 가축에 한하며 개는 해당사항이 없습니다.
– 재래시장에서 개의 지육을 전시/판매하는 행위는 식품위생법 제4, 5조의 위반입니다. 불결한 불법도축과 지육 전시과정에서의 오염으로 ‘위해식품 등의 판매금지’ 조항에 위배됩니다. 개의 지육이 병을 일으키는 미생물에 오염된 경우 인체의 건강을 해칠 우려가 있습니다. 또 유기견이나 개농장의 병든 개체가 도살돼 판매될 가능성을 배제하지 못하므로 ‘병든 동물의 고기 등의 판매금지’ 조항에 위배됩니다.
– 보신탕집에서 출처 불명의 개고기를 이용한 보신탕을 판매하는 행위는 식품위생법 제44, 1항 1호의 위반입니다. 검사를 받지 않은 축산물은 운반, 보관, 진열, 판매하거나 식품의 제조, 가공에 사용해서는 안됩니다.
동물권행동 카라의 개식용에 관한 법적 정보 “개식용 종식을 위한 법규 안내집이 발간되었습니다!”를 참조하십시오. https://www.ekara.org/activity/against/read/7537
미국 하원은 공식적으로 결의안 H.Res 401 “개와 고양이 식용산업을 종식시키고 모든 국가가 개와 고양이식용를 금지할 것을 촉구한다.”를 통과시켰습니다. (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/401)
서울시에서 자행되는 잔인한 개/고양이 식용산업에 대한 외신 보도가 서울시의 이미지를 크게 추락시키고 있습니다. 이 비극을 끝낼 때입니다! 서울시의 회신을 요청드립니다.
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Video: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea
[Update: January 4, 2019] Click HERE to see the Seoul’s response.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
This shit needs to stop!! Quit killing dogs!!
Dogs around the world are loving, caring souls. They love unconditionally. I have seen these loyal animals wagging their tails as they are being thrust into the hands of meat traders and very stupid people who want to take them home as dinner. These dogs TRUST us. Why would you want to kill an amimal who loves and trusts humans? South Korea, Vietnam and China really need to step up to the mark. I, for one would he happy to boycott products from these barbaric countries until something is done about the torture stealing, greed and pure violence towards these animals!
please help, all dogs and cats, they are living beings, they feel like us humans. Please help, save them!
Those people have no soul and no feelings.
It’s nonhuman to treat animals like this.
They should be caged to let them know how it feels and may the devil himself take care of them.
killing these dogs that we as humans have gotten them to trust us is so cruel so sad and so wrong to have no feelings for animals shows a country is backward in its thinking please stop torturing and killing dogs and cats thank you
Boycott products made in S. Korea and China!!! We consumers everywhere need to boycott anything made in these Asian countries until the governments put an end to allowing this torture and abuse of innocent animals. The subhumans who torture and kill the innocent animals are the ones who should be locked up in cages! It’s time for Asian countries to join the civilized world and stop allowing this cruel, inhumane, abusive treatment of innocent animals!
Boycott products from Asia and any other country that practice torture of any kind, uncivilized society
Krystyna Kościarz
Today is first day of New year 2021, many people said goodbye to old year,to bad things, behaviour
My family recently lost our beloved dog,he was 17 and half years old,we missing him do much.
We will never accept brutality of some Korean people,who killing intelliigent animals like dogs and cats, because their government it allows them.
We will never buy Koreans products until they stop barbaric killing.
Stop suffering innocent, intelligent, loving dogs and cats.
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 PLEASE BOYCOTT EVERY PRODUCTS WHAT COM FROM THESE CRUEL DISGUSTING”s COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boycott everything from this disgusting country
This is horrfic evil barbaric inhuman slaughter of dogs and cats who are god’s beautiful creation to humanity I can’t understand why would you butcher and torture dogs and cats in a brutal inhuman suffering .no animal deserve to be boiled alive , skinned alive, blowtorch alive,.what is wrong with you .I am sicked and disgusting how total disregard you have for animals life.your horrfic bloodshed against defenceless animals speaks volumes of animal cruelty to living animals .who are born in misery into the horrific sensesless meat trade .how bloody godless and evil you people are were is your humanity stop bloody eating cat and dogs they are pets.i pray God teaches you a lesson .their is a Creater of heaven and earth .you will pay the price for your horrfice brutal slaughter of defenceless animals.
Hit ALL countries including South Korea, where it will hurt the most – Financially – DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THE SMALLEST TO THE LARGEST ITEM THAT IS MADE IN THESE COUNTRIES. THE UK GOVT AND OTHER GOVTS NEED TO DO SOMETHING TOO.
shame on your country!
Filed petition on E-People.
There are plenty of other foods to eat without slaughtering domestic pets in the most harrowing i humane way. These beautiful creatures just want to be loved and give love and in return you murder them in the most barbaric way … Shame on you and you county …. The world is disgusted and appalled by evil wickedness you are hated by millions of people round the world.
STOP!!!
Come on Korea! You are a respected nation in the world and world class in so many things yet your country is totally shamed by the sadistic torture of animals but especially dogs who were domesticated by man and trusted us and now clearly utterly betrayed, I believe that not too long in the future mankind will look back on these abhorrent practices and will be shocked that Korea and other places could routinely inflict such fear, pain and suffering. The world can only change because of powerful people and in this case this is you, surely you can see this is wrong wrong wrong! Their only hope for a better life is by powerful people like you making this happen….please, I implore you, save them 🙏🏼