Korea Animal Rights Advocates is a volunteer, non-profit organization. We believe that animals have a right to live their lives free from tyranny and suffering.
As in other countries, the exploitation and abuse of animals is a constant problem in Korea. It is made worse by Korea's very poor animal welfare reputation and its weak and ineffective animal protection laws. The general public is often uninformed about animal issues.
So KARA works constantly to educate the public and raise awareness of the ethical issues surrounding the treatment of animals in Korea.
We are a no-kill organization and only work with no-kill shelters.
After KARA's team returned from Thailand, fundraising donations were sent to provide extra help for Thai flood victims. Many dogs and cats have been returned to their families.
Sumi Jo, the famous Korean soprano, has donated 150 million won (around $150,000 US) to kick off the fundraising effort for KARA's new animal education center to be built in Seoul.
Please don't buy dead animal skins and fur this winter. Don't support suffering and cruelty.
Over 55 Billion Per Year
The numbers of animals killed in the world by the meat, dairy and egg industries since you opened this webpage.
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This counter does not include the billions of fish and sea animals killed annually.
Former Pets Become Dog Meat: this video features parts of a program that was broadcast on Korea TV about the ex-pet dog meat trade. Viewers were shocked to learn what happened to abandoned pets. But it's long been an open secret.
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KARA's Director
KARA's Director is also a director of movies!
Soonrye Yim has directed 8 movies of different kinds and also written movie scripts. Read more here.
Recently she appeared in an anti-fur PETA Video with Ricco the rabbit. Read more about it and watch it here.
KARA is part of theMember Society Network of The World Society for the Protection of Animals.
Few people seem to perceive fully as yet that the most far-reaching
consequence of the establishment of the common origin of all species is
ethical; that it logically involved a re-adjustment of altruistic morals
by enlarging as a necessity of rightness the application of what has
been called “The Golden Rule” beyond the area of mere mankind to
that of the whole animal kingdom.
Thomas Hardy
They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
Henry Beston
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Henry David Thoreau
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
Alice Walker
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Pythagoras
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
Theodor Adorno
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas Edison
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
