Sister City Campaign — Suwon, South Korea — Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

3 min readMay 3, 2022

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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany: Tell Sister City, Suwon, South Korea, that you are opposed to 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.

Suwon became a Sister city with Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in November 3, 2015.

Sister City agreement ceremony of Suwon, South Korea and Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 11/3/2015.

Culture, art, high-end shops, high tech companies, including the headquarters for electronics giant Samsung, can be found within the city of Suwon; regrettably, so can the dog meat restaurants and so-called ‘health centers,’ places where horribly abused and brutally slaughtered dogs and cats are served up as food and drinks.

In South Korea, there are countless dog 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, stabbing, 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 public and broad daylight. In addition, many abandoned and stolen former pets end up in this industry and are subject to the same cruelty.

Video: There are about 2,000–3,000 illegal dog farms in South Korea. Even at this moment, dogs are being slaughtered. Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA). 대한민국에 존재하는 불법 개농장은 약 2–3천 개. 지금 이 순간에도 개들은 위험에 처해 있습니다.

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Suwon’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 dozens of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in the vicinity of Suwon.

Click HERE for the photos of dog meat restaurants & ‘Health Center’ in Nam-Moon and Ji-Dong Markets in Suwon.

Even if half of these ‘Health’ Food Centers and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be present in the vicinity of Suwon to supply all of these outlets.