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South Korea joins a growing list of Asian countries and territories that have banned the dog meat trade, including India, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Show comments ...
The trade in dog meat, which has been consumed on the Korean Peninsula for centuries, will be banned in South Korea from 2027 amid changing attitudes.
By 2019 all major dog meat markets had shut down across South Korea, mainly due to declining sales. In 2021, the last major dog meat market remaining shut down in Daegu. [4] On November 21, 2018, South Korea closed the country's main dog slaughterhouse, known as Taepyeong-dong. [9] The slaughterhouse was located in Seongnam. [9]
Previous efforts to ban the dog meat trade were stymied by vehement opposition from farmers—but starting in 2027, those who breed dogs or sell their meat for human consumption may face jail time.
The number of farms across South Korea has dropped by half from a few years ago to about 3,000 to 4,000, and about 700,000 to 1 million dogs are slaughtered each year, a decline from several ...
[266] [267] Nureongi are not the only type of dog currently slaughtered for their meat in South Korea. In 2015, The Korea Observer reported that many different pet breeds of dog are eaten in South Korea, including Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers and cocker spaniels, and that the dogs slaughtered for their meat often include former pets ...
Dog meat sold in Gyeongdong Market, Seoul, South Korea. The dog meat trade is a major concern for South Korean animal activists. [2] [3] Over 2 million dogs are consumed each year, with pet dogs being stolen and sold into the trade and killed in brutal ways (e.g. beating, electrocution) in violation of the Animal Protection Act. [1]
In protest of a dog meat ban which aims to end South Korea’s dog meat trade by 2027, dog farmers are striking back at government officials.