South Korea hides a dirty secret in shadow of Olympics

By Steve Jacobs
Updated January 29 2018 - 9:43am, first published January 17 2018 - 11:52am
Leila, center, and her puppy, Stacey, left, are shown locked in a cage at a dog meat farm in Namyangju, South Korea, on Tuesday, November 28, 2017. The operation is part of HSIs efforts to fight the dog meat trade throughout Asia. In South Korea, the campaign includes working to raise awareness among Koreans about the plight of meat dogs being no different from the animals more and more of them are keeping as pets. .?? South Korean farmers are trying to get out of farming dogs for meat and to farm blueberries ahead of the Winter Olympics in February. Photo by / Humane Society International
Leila, center, and her puppy, Stacey, left, are shown locked in a cage at a dog meat farm in Namyangju, South Korea, on Tuesday, November 28, 2017. The operation is part of HSIs efforts to fight the dog meat trade throughout Asia. In South Korea, the campaign includes working to raise awareness among Koreans about the plight of meat dogs being no different from the animals more and more of them are keeping as pets. .?? South Korean farmers are trying to get out of farming dogs for meat and to farm blueberries ahead of the Winter Olympics in February. Photo by / Humane Society International
Claire Bass, HSI-UK Director, pets Henry inside his cage at a dog meat farm in Namyangju, South Korea, on Wednesday, November 29, 2017. The operation is part of HSIs efforts to fight the dog meat trade throughout Asia. In South Korea, the campaign includes working to raise awareness among Koreans about the plight of meat dogs being no different from the animals more and more of them are keeping as pets. .?? South Korean farmers are trying to get out of farming dogs for meat and to farm blueberries ahead of the Winter Olympics in February. Photo by / Humane Society International
Claire Bass, HSI-UK Director, pets Henry inside his cage at a dog meat farm in Namyangju, South Korea, on Wednesday, November 29, 2017. The operation is part of HSIs efforts to fight the dog meat trade throughout Asia. In South Korea, the campaign includes working to raise awareness among Koreans about the plight of meat dogs being no different from the animals more and more of them are keeping as pets. .?? South Korean farmers are trying to get out of farming dogs for meat and to farm blueberries ahead of the Winter Olympics in February. Photo by / Humane Society International
(from left) Abby Hubbard, Deputy Director of Animal Welfare League of Alexandria, Nara Kim, Campaign Manager in South Korea of Humane Society International (HSI), and Wendy Higgins, HSI Director of International Media, hold and cuddle Tosa puppies that were born on the farm at a dog meat farm in Namyangju, South Korea, on Tuesday, November 28, 2017. The operation is part of HSIs efforts to fight the dog meat trade throughout Asia. In South Korea, the campaign includes working to raise awareness among Koreans about the plight of meat dogs being no different from the animals more and more of them are keeping as pets. (From left) Abby Hubbard, deputy director of the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria; Nara Kim, Humane Society International's campaign manager for South Korea; and Wendy Higgins, HSI director of international media, hold Tosa puppies that were born at Mr Kim's dog meat farm
(from left) Abby Hubbard, Deputy Director of Animal Welfare League of Alexandria, Nara Kim, Campaign Manager in South Korea of Humane Society International (HSI), and Wendy Higgins, HSI Director of International Media, hold and cuddle Tosa puppies that were born on the farm at a dog meat farm in Namyangju, South Korea, on Tuesday, November 28, 2017. The operation is part of HSIs efforts to fight the dog meat trade throughout Asia. In South Korea, the campaign includes working to raise awareness among Koreans about the plight of meat dogs being no different from the animals more and more of them are keeping as pets. (From left) Abby Hubbard, deputy director of the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria; Nara Kim, Humane Society International's campaign manager for South Korea; and Wendy Higgins, HSI director of international media, hold Tosa puppies that were born at Mr Kim's dog meat farm

Mr Kim had been farming dogs for their meat for 20 years and was looking to start a new business, possibly in construction, and to grow vegetables on his land.

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