The President of Finland, Honorable Sauli Niinistö: Please tell your Partnership Country, South Korea, you oppose the torture and consumption of dogs and cats.

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3 min readJul 22

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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.

Yonhap News reported on 7/13/2023, “Yoon and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto agreed to strengthen cooperation not only in science and technology and arms, but also in supporting startups, handling radioactive waste and jointly researching 6G networks….In all four meetings, Yoon requested support for South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo in its southeastern city of Busan, according to his office.“

Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (L) shakes hands with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto during their talks in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023, on the sidelines of a summit of NATO. (Yonhap)

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

Video: South Korea’s shocking cruelty of dog meat industry. Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE).
Video: Dogs who suffered their entire lives are electric tortured and killed in cages — South Korea’s horrific dog meat industry. jtbc News.[추적보도 훅] 철창 갇힌 채 감전사…’먹히기 위해’ 죽어가는 개들 / JTBC 뉴스룸

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of South Korea’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 thousands of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in South Korea.

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

There are laws in South Korea against selling dogs and cats for consumption, yet these laws are blatantly ignored.

Photo: The Korea Observer. Documentary: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea.https://koreandogs.org/dmp/

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Documentary: Cruel Death of South Korea’s Dogs. Dogs Are Innocent. (한국 댕댕이 잔혹사: 개는 죄가 없다)
https://koreandogs.org/documentary-koreas-dog-cruelty/

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