Sister City Campaign – Seoul, South Korea – San Francisco, California
Campaign updated on 2/28/2023.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed: Tell Sister City Seoul, South Korea, 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.
Seoul became a Sister City to San Francisco, California in 1976.
In Seoul, 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.
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 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 many hundreds of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in Seoul.
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 the vicinity of Seoul 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
- 📧 Send emails to the mayor and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected];Send the CC (Carbon Copy) email to the Seoul Metropolitan Council and the South Korean National Assembly members.
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; gimp[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]ail.com; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
- 📬 Send letter. (Use the below-suggested message)
Mayor London N. Breed
City Hall, Room 200
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
USASan Francisco Board of Supervisors
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
City Hall, Room 244
San Francisco, Ca. 94102-4689
USA📬 Send a copy of your letter to Seoul:
Mayor Oh Se-Hoon
Seoul Metropolitan Government
Saejong-daero 110, Jung-gu, Seoul, Postal Code 04524
South KoreaSeoul Metropolitan Council
Saejong-daero 125, Jung-gu, Seoul, Postal Code 04519
South Korea📬 Seoul’s addresses in Korean:
오세훈 서울특별시 시장님
서울시청
04524 서울특별시 중구 세종대로 110
South Korea서울특별시의회
(04519) 서울특별시 중구 세종대로 125
South Korea - ☎️ Call the San Francisco Mayor’s office: Telephone: (415) 554-6141, Fax: (415) 554-6160
- Send a Twitter message!
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] #SanFrancisco Mayor [email protected] Tell Sister City #Seoul #SouthKorea, you oppose the torture and consumption of #dogs and #cats 🐾 https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ 😢https://vimeo.com/754160791 😭 https://chng.it/5Ty85rRc https://koreandogs.org/sister-city-seoul-san-francisco/
San Francisco Mayor London Breed: Tell Sister City Seoul, South Korea, you oppose the torture and consumption of dogs and cats.
Dear Mayor London Breed and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors members:
As mayor and representatives of San Francisco, we ask you to reconsider your “friendship” with Seoul, a city that permits dogs and cats to be brutally tortured for food.
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
https://koreandogs.org/jtbc-news-electric-tortured-in-cages/
Touted as a so-called cosmopolitan city, Seoul consumes the most dog meat of any city in South Korea. There are countless dog farms and dog slaughterhouses in the vicinity of Seoul. Korean web searches of Seoul turn up hundreds 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 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 Seoul, dogs are killed in full view of other caged dogs who tremble with terror. 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, NJ, knew that no relationship or economic incentive was worth complicity in torturing humankind’s most loyal companion. As reported in the Korea Times, he recently rejected a visit from exchange students from the friendship city Incheon Ganghwa County due to their 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 Seoul Mayor Oh Se-Hoon to shut down all Seoul-supplying 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 Seoul is in progress: https://chng.it/5Ty85rRc.
Thank you for your serious consideration. We eagerly await your reply.
Sincerely,
[Your name, city, country]
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, Seoul, South Korea.
If I could explain: Dog-meat consumption is currently being practiced 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 on their behalf. And, I believe that your city would wish to be made aware of this issue, as you would not want to affiliate 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.
This illegal industry is being allowed to continue by Seoul authorities – even though there is growing opposition from pet owners across South Korea and worldwide.
So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in Seoul to urge them 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.
No matter where you live, PLEASE SHARE these actions with your friends, especially those who live in San Francisco! 🙏
Share this:
I can only hope any person that supports this and condones this should meet the same fate
Stop this barbaric slaughter on dogs!
This 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 for human consumption. We need to end the slaughter of innocent Animals. It is MURDER. Those involved should be prosecuted and imprisoned for there act of cruelty to innocent Animals.
This horrific brutal torture and inflicting horrific pain and suffering on defenseless dogs and animals in general goes against humanity.what godless and heartless monsters are you.I hope that the creator of all humanity sends you a disease in your heartless bodies so you suffer the same fate pure evil heartless inhuman behavior.
This wicked, evil, abhorrent abuse, torture and slaughter of such beautiful creatures must be stopped! Please!
Please please stop this immediately, dogs are not for food, they are God’s pets, and he created them to be companions for everybody , please stop this now
Can’t watch the horrific videos. Knowing that these wonderful animals are being treated so horrificly badly, it’s as if not only do these monsters have no respect, it’s downright hatred. Please God, make them stop
WE LIVE IN 2022!!! NOT IN THE YEAR OF THE CAVE MAN!!!! WE MUST NEVER BUY OR VISIT THIS CRIMINAL COUNTRIES!! I DO NOT EAT MEAT OF NO ANIMALS!!! IT ALL STARTS WITH EACH ONE OF US!!
Dogs have served man since the dawn of time. Cats have served when there was an overpopulation of rats and mice who were eating your crops. The cruelty and torture of these animals to devour with relish as a Holiday needs to end. These butchers have turned your nation into a country that no tourist will visit or eat in your restaurants.
This is truly evil. These creatures give us love and stand beside us when times are bad. So we need to do the same for them.
Do the right thing.
This is disgusting to treat these beautiful creatures or any creature in this manner is why mother nature is biting back with the covid-19 disease being unleashed you would think these monsters would stop there evil, the problem is it has killed innocent people and killed most countrys economy’s not to mention peoples mental health, I wish that these people get the same happen to them over and over in there afterlife.
Stop this barbaric cruelty and murder of Dogs and Cats for meat, especially as animals are sentience beings just like us humans!!!
tierquäler jeder art, setze ich mit mörden gleich. der mensch hat vergessen oder ist zu blöd um zu wissen, das menschen auch nur tiere sind
Monster korea boycott korea
HOW LONG will the WORLD watch unspeakable tortures inflicted on dogs and cats at South Korea’s dog-meat markets and do nothing about it. How can you talk about “peace” and “democracy” while shocking horrors are regularly committed on defenseless, loving and innocent animals in front of your eyes! Skinning dogs and cats alive, cooking them alive and other appalling tortures shall NOT BE SILENCED, but openly directed to the South-Korean President. We live in 2023 and this abomination must end!
This is disgusting and a babarian dooing
Stop it