This video shows the disgraceful conditions in which dogs are kept at an illegal dog farm in Gobuk-myeon, Seosan-si, Choongnam (on the mid-west coast of Korea). The video was shot by a KARA investigator in March, 2009.

It clearly shows the filthy, barren and inhuman conditions in which dogs are unnaturally confined.

The stills below highlight some of the points KARA focused on for a protest document to the region's authorities, asking for the farm to be closed down. A translation of the protest letter is here.

Perched on a hill in plain view, it is obvious to everyone that it is a dog farm operation.

Junk yard conditions and rusted, filthy cages show the total disregard for animal welfare and the makeshift nature of the establishment. It has obviously been set up on the cheap with no intention of making any improvements to it.

Here is the dog food storage trough, full of rain water mixed with restaurant refuse. It has a lot of rice, kimchi and seafood, things a dog would not normally eat. This disgusting swill is all the food these poor dogs will ever know.

They will also never know any environment other than the appalling conditions they will have to endure all their lives, crammed in faeces encrusted with other dogs. It has been like that for them since they were pups. Unfortunately, this is normal at dog farms and will not illicit condemnation or moral outrage from authorities.

This being the case, KARA has to focus on other points, such as a lack of sanitation. Under the cages, you can see the excreta piled high, together with urine and rain water. Essentially, it's an open sewer. On the bottom right in the image above, a small gully allows for run off, which goes straight down the hill.

Piled excreta and filth like this was found beneath all of the cages. The farmer is just not bothering to clean it up.

They never feel the joy of touching the ground or running through grass, never exercise or chew a bone or know freedom. They are deprived of everything that is natural to them all their lives.

Here it is possible to see the flow of sewage, going down in steps.

Rather than fix the facilities, as the authorities demanded of him, the farmer erected a fence to block prying eyes.

If you look at the bottom of the first panel of the fence, you'll see a gully carved into shoulder of the slope through which sewage flows. It goes on down the hill and invariably into the water table.