Sister City Campaign – Yongin, South Korea – Fullerton, California
Campaign Updated 4/22/2023.
Fullerton, California: Tell Sister City, Yongin, 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.
Yongin became a Sister city to Fullerton, California, in 2004.
In Yongin, there are numerous illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses markets, and dog meat 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 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.
Video: Dog slaughterhouses killing dogs with an electric iron skewer. Sick dogs neglect, dog carcasses fed to dogs, 53 dog farms discovered. ‘전기 꼬챙이’ 도살, 병든 반려견 방치. 개농장 53곳 무더기 적발. 6/22/21, TV Chosun News.. https://youtu.be/m_n_GPQPbmw
Video: Illegal dog farm in Yongin, Korea, where the dead dogs are piled up like trash and the CARE activists are assaulted by the dog farmer. Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE). https://youtu.be/Q3MChcd3DAc
A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Yongin’s dog meat demand.
Yongin is one of the largest dog meat suppliers and consumption cities in South Korea. There are numerous dog farms and dog slaughterhouses in Yongin. Korean web searches of Yongin turn up dozens 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). 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 Yongin to supply these outlets.
Please click HERE for the partial list of numerous dog farms and slaughterhouses in Yongin. There could be many more large and small dog farms in Yongin. There are laws in South Korea against selling dogs and cats for consumption, yet these laws are blatantly ignored.
Call for Action
- 📧 Send emails to the Fullerton mayor and the city council members.
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- Send message through Facebook pages.
- 📬 Send letter.
City of Fullerton
Mayor & City Council
303 W. Commonwealth Avenue
Fullerton, CA 92832
USA
📧 CC (Carbon Copy) the Yongin City Council, Gyeonggi-do Assembly, and South Korean National Assembly members.
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📝 Suggested message
Fullerton, California: Please tell Sister City, Yongin, South Korea, that you oppose the torture and consumption of dogs and cats.
Dear Mayor Fred Jung and the Fullerton City Council members,
As mayor and representatives of Fullerton, we ask you to reconsider your “friendship” with Yongin, a city that permits dogs and cats to be horribly abused and brutally killed for food.
While graphic, these undercover videos depicting South Korea’s dog meat industry are important to watch:
Shocking Cruelty of South Korea’s Dog Meat Industry, Part 1 of 2: https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ
Part 2 of 2: https://vimeo.com/754160791
Illegal dog farm in Yongin, Korea, where the dead dogs are piled up like trash, and the CARE activists are assaulted by the dog farmer: https://youtu.be/Q3MChcd3DAc
Forest fire in Uljin burns dogs imprisoned in dog meat farms: https://youtu.be/mh1lEGt2gjU
https://youtu.be/GLLeI_XFNPg
Yongin is one of the largest dog meat suppliers and consumption cities in South Korea. There are numerous dog farms and dog slaughterhouses in Yongin. Korean web searches of Yongin turn up dozens 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 in Yongin, 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 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.
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 Americans and people worldwide, we ask that you follow these bold leads by not remaining silent in the face of such abhorrent cruelty. Please urge Yongin Mayor Lee Sang-il to shut down all Yongin 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 Yongin is in progress: https://chng.it/nmBY6njZ.
Thank you for your serious consideration. We eagerly await your reply.
Sincerely,
Name, City, Country
- ☎️ Call the Fullerton mayor and the city council members.
Mayor Fred Jung (714)738-6311
Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Whitaker (714) 981-8474
Council Member Nick Dunlap (714) 738-6311
Council Member Shana Charles (714) 738-6311
Council Member Ahmad Zahra (714) 738-6311 - Send a Twitter message!
.@FullertonCA .@yicouncil #Fullerton: Tell Sister City #Yongin #SouthKorea, that you oppose the torture and consumption of #dogs #cats. #dogmeat #catmeat 😢 https://chng.it/nmBY6njZ 🐾https://koreandogs.org/sister-city-yongin-fullerton/
☎️ Suggested phone message
Hello, I’m calling to speak to someone in the Mayor’s Office to ask for their help on an important issue regarding your Sister city, Yongin, in South Korea.
If I could explain: Yongin’s massive dog-meat industry is brutalizing and inflicting indescribable cruelty against the hundreds of thousands of dogs in that city, 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. They cannot speak for themselves, so I am calling. And I believe that your city would wish to be made aware of this issue, as you would not want to be affiliated with a city 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.
These illegal trades are being allowed to continue by Yongin authorities – even though there is growing opposition from pet guardians across South Korea and worldwide.
So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in Yongin to urge them to enforce their laws, not ignore them, and to show compassion to their companion animals and respect to their citizens by bringing these trades to an end.
This is the time to make a change; this is the time to stop the illegal, inhumane, and unnecessary cruelty. 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.
No matter where you live, PLEASE SHARE these actions with your friends, especially those who live in Fullerton!
Photos: Illegal dog farm in Yongin, Korea, where the dead dogs are piled up like trash and the CARE activists are assaulted by the dog farmer. Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE). https://youtu.be/Q3MChcd3DAc
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Stop that evil act of killing and eating dogs and cats
Stop killing dogs ,evil and sadistic subhumans
An eye for an eye is required.
Stop torturing, slaughtering and eating dogs and cats !
i wish more people know about u nami kim! im spreading the word!
We stand behind you Nami Kim in all your efforts to save these poor innocent animals. Good luck and may good win over evil and these horrible and vile murders stop now!!i
Here is the letter I sent to the Fullerton officials (via email and FB pages) and cc’d to the Mayor of Yongin with his own letter:
Dear Mayor Jennifer Fitzgerald and the City Council members:
Please watch the undercover videos from South Korea’s dog meat industry: http://youtu.be/3uR8R8Mu70Q
Also please watch the undercover video from the documentary trailer by the Korea Observer: https://youtu.be/T6KKIZEjofs
Let me get right to the point:
The City of Fullerton should not be a Sister city to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten.
These are not the acts of desperately hungry people, but of despicably callous and barbaric sadists acting **for profit**.
Searches of the Korean internet results in 317 so-called “Health Food Centers” — these commonly sell dog/cat elixirs (also known as dog soju and cat soju), PLUS 170 (!) dog meat soup restaurants in and around the city of Yongin alone.
This is not only unacceptable, this is DESPICABLE.
Please notify Yongin Mayor Chan-Min Jeong of your awareness of the worldwide protests against this horrific (and supposedly illegal) industry in their country and vehemently urge them to close down ALL dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers and restaurants who serve their products as soon as humanly possible.
An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jennifer-fitzgerald-of-fullerton-california-tell-sister-city-yongin-s-korea-that-we-re-opposed-to-torture-consumption-of-dogs-cats
Horrified animal lovers the world over demand immediate action on this extremely troubling matter.
Thank you for your efforts to help us put an end to these atrocities.
PLEASE STOP THE HORRIFIC TORTURE AND VERY PAINFUL ABUSE AND KILLING OF BEAUTIFUL DOGS AND CATS ITS VERY BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH TO EAT DOGMEAT!!
The Only Logical and Moral response is VEGANISM ! ! !
What will it take for you South Korean to stop killing dogs, cats and other animals that are not suitable for the dinner table? Stop being stubborn people and start changing your ways and avoid eating these animals. It’s no wonder why there is the corona virus and other diseases effecting your health
No country can call themselves civilized sanctioning sadistic cruelty to animals.
Anyone participating and/or condoning these henious crimes of sadistic torture of animals are a disgrace to humanity.
This is NOT how humans conduct themselves and still call themselves humans!
The Korean Government need to act NOW. What they are allowing to happen in there Country is illegal and barbaric. Dogs and Cats were not put on this earth to be tortured and abused. They were not put on this earth to for human consumption. Shut down these illegal farms NOW. Dogs and cats lives matter too. End the MURDER of these innocent Animals.
Only monsters could commit these evil acts to innocent animals
Lopettakaa tuo kauhea julmuus korille ja kissoille! Olette hirviöitä !!!
My heart aches when I see any torture and slaughter of our wonderful animals. Cats and dogs are our family members. Why do people have to be so cruel? Please please please stop it all now!
EMAILS SENT
No country can call itself civilised and allow this barbaric slaughter to continue. It’s humanity at it worst, pure evil.