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Animal Welfare in Korea PDF Print E-mail

Korea does not have strong animal welfare laws and lags well behind the international community in this area.

For many years, it had no laws to protect animals at all. In 1991, the very first Animal Welfare Law was legislated. However, this did very little to actually protect animals. Commentators say that the law in fact paved the way for more cruelty to dogs in particular.

The law was revised several times, the last being a major revision in 2008. Despite some additions, the law still does little to improve animal rights. Essential it pays lip service to the concept of animal welfare, helps the government put on a good face, and appeases foreign observers.

In the case of the dog issue, the law is a joke since the government is even showing support for the dog-meat industry by introducing a sanitation law.

What does it all mean for animals? Basically, they have little protection and are at the mercy of unethical and unscrupulous human beings as they have always been in Korea.

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