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Sister City Campaign – Gwangju, South Korea – San Antonio, Texas

Campaign updated on 9/1/2022.

San Antonio, Texas: Tell your Sister City, Gwangju, South Korea, that you oppose 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.

Gwangju became a Sister City to San Antonio, Texas, in 1981.

Gwangju Metropolitan City Mayor Lee Yong-seop attended the unveiling ceremony of ‘Sister Cities, Light of Friendship,’ a donated sculpture from San Antonio, USA, held at the Kimdaejung Convention Center in Seo-gu on the afternoon of 10/24/2019. The sculpture unveiling ceremony is held with guests, including the Globalization Promotion Council members. Break News.

In Gwangju, there are numerous dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets, and restaurants where the dogs, who have been 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.

South Korea’s dog farms. ARK119.

Video: Imprisoning dogs in raised wire cages in South Korea’s dog meat farms is extreme cruelty!

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Gwangju’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 dozens of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in the vicinity of Gwangju.

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 present in Gwangju 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

  1. Rita Ruocco
    Rita RuoccoMarch 31,16

    Please help stop the cruel and barbaric act of using dogs and cats for human consumption.

  2. Kerstin Olofsson
    Kerstin OlofssonMarch 31,16

    Please help stop the cruel and barbaric act of using dogs and cats for human consumption.

  3. Elfi Martin
    Elfi MartinMarch 31,16

    Das ist so unfassbar traurig!

  4. Carol
    CarolMarch 31,16

    the abuse and aggressive cruel, savage and heartless mistreatment and torture done to these noble loyal intelligent dogs is beyond barbarianism! No animal on earth deserves your sick cruel acts you do to these friends of man. These dogs are better than any of their gluttonous maggot torturers and killers ! Anyone who can so savagely abuse another living soul, as the maggot Koreans who prey on these helpless ,caged and tortured dogs deserves God’s wrath! May God stomp on Korea! Proverbs 12:10 Proverbs 11:17. I hate Korea. I hope you all get so sick and suffer as you made these precious dogs suffer. You are a wicked heartless people.

  5. Carmen Voinescu
    Carmen VoinescuApril 1,16

    Please help end this cruel practice!

  6. renate klinksieck
    renate klinksieckApril 1,16

    grausam und widerwärtig !

  7. renate klinksieck
    renate klinksieckApril 1,16

    I feel shocked, helpless and furious

  8. Ruud van Rikxoort
    Ruud van RikxoortApril 1,16

    Barbaren en nog eens barbaren,

  9. Cathy Souther
    Cathy SoutherApril 1,16

    No living creature deserves to be brutally tortured and terrorized until death these actions are of a cold sadistic soul. I can only pray you meet the same fate as the creatures you have harmed !!!!

  10. Barbara Peterlin
    Barbara PeterlinApril 2,16

    Very cruel Chinese people boil cats and dogs in hot water so it is very very mean!! They don’t ever understand how the cats and dogs feel burned or hurt very badly. “Thou shall not murder.”

  11. Sandra Kirchberger
    Sandra KirchbergerApril 8,16

    THIS COUNTRY IS PURE EVIL..I WILL BOYCOTT ALL KOREAN PRODUCTS AND TELL EVERYONE I KNOW TO DO THE SAME UNTIL THE EVIL IS STOPPED FOR GOOD!!

  12. Luree Dell-Bryan
    Luree Dell-BryanApril 8,16

    Backwards country – time to join the 21st century!

  13. eri tanabe
    eri tanabeApril 16,16

    terrible

  14. jacqueline
    jacquelineApril 18,16

    done

  15. Terry Lingard
    Terry LingardMay 12,16

    Copy of letter I sent to the Mayor.

    Will you please protest and do all you can to stop the evil torture of animals in South Korea. I am so distressed I am living in mental hell with these poor animals and I don’t know how the compassionate Koreans stay sane. The torture of these poor helpless animals is emotionally draining and torturing Koreans and millions of people around the world. Please help us all to achieve a little peace of mind and mercy.

    Yours in sincere hope,

    Sent from Windows Mail

  16. Caroline
    CarolineMay 19,16

    there is no place in civilised society for this barbaric torture. Shame on them. This must stop now

  17. chaitanya
    chaitanyaMay 21,16

    You reap wht you sow

  18. GABRIELA VARGAS
    GABRIELA VARGASNovember 15,16

    NO ES POSIBLE QUE ESTA ARBITRARIEDAD NO SE DETENGA, ESTO ES UNA BRUTALIDAD Y EXIGIMOS EN TODO EL MUNDO ALTO AL CRIMEN. ESTO DEBE PARAR AHORA, SÓLO GENERA VIOLENCIA ENTRE LAS SOCIEDADES. ES PRIMITIVO Y PERTURBADOR. NO TIENEN DERECHO!!!!

  19. ely mens
    ely mensJanuary 19,17

    Please, stop this awful cruelty against these very poor, abandoned animals. It is heartbreaking to see their immense suffering and it makes me cry!!!
    We need to feel compassion and to teach our children that animals need to be treated with love and respect because they belong; exactly like we do; to the circle of life!
    And that is what we try to teach our children and grandchildren; to live on a planet with a high civilization; together with all these beautiful animals without cruelty.

  20. Anu Sipiläinen
    Anu SipiläinenSeptember 1,22

    Lopettakaa tuo kauhea hirveys lemmikeille, ne eivät ole syötävää vaan rakastettavia perheenjäseniä. Olette hirviöitä ettekä ihmisiä !!!

  21. Dr. Patricia A. Ryan
    Dr. Patricia A. RyanSeptember 2,22

    You must obey your laws in South Korea against the travesty of killing these innocent dogs for food. They are treated horribly and die a terrible death. Please show some compassion and humanity and stop this terrible practice.

  22. Sandra K
    Sandra KSeptember 3,22

    I feel like this is a nightmare that just wont end!!!! I keep hoping I will wake up and realize there were never such demons like this on the earth!! Why cant we just attack this POS country (and China too) ? They serve no purpose other than to cause pain with their animal cruelty and pandemics!!!

  23. Ulrike Temme
    Ulrike TemmeSeptember 10,22

    Please do anything to stop this barbaric cruelty NOW and FOREVER !!! That’s NO civilization !!!

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