South Korea banned dog meat. So what about dogs?

When God does not preach the Word of God, Joo Yeong-Bomb is growing in slaughterhousing dogs.

The business will not go well. In fact, it is about to become illegal.

“We tried to sell our dogs last summer, but traders are certainly followed,” Joo said 60, BBck. “Not a single appear.”

In 2024, the South Korean government established a national ban on the sale of consumer dog meat. Landmark Landmark was exceeded last January, until February 2027, Joo, to turn off the operations and selling other animals.

But many say that there is enough time to driven life for generations.

The prohibition, although they help defend experts and animal rights, have problems with its enforcement, including the difficulty reserved of the dying dogs, including euthanasia is more threatening.

During the grace season, dogs are almost non-farmers who are almost non-close farming farms and food on the table.

“People suffer,” says Joo Mr. Joo, a group that represents the industry, a group representing the industry. “We’re drowning in debt, we can’t afford it, and some can’t … find new jobs.

“It’s an unexpected situation.”

Chan-Woo has 18 months to get rid of 600 dogs.

After that, a 33-year-old meat farmer – when we agreed to the fear of making it back – he has a sentence of two years.

“Realistically, even on my farm, I can’t process the number of dogs I have during that time,” he noted. “At this point I have invested all my assets (farm) – and are not yet taken dogs.

“They”, Chan-Woo doesn’t mean before the ban, especially for traders and butchers that would buy half a dozen dogs.

They also refer to the entrepreneurs and authorities of animals that have fought hard to overcome the dog’s meat.

“They (authorities) passed the law without any plans, and now they can’t take dogs.”

Lee Sangkyung, Animal Korean (HWK) Manager of the World Human campaign, is an echo of these concerns.

“Even if the dog flesh exceeded, both government and civic groups continue to rescue the rest of the dogs,” he noted. “The missing area is still a discussion about the dogs left behind.”

A spokesperson of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Ministry (Mafra) said BBC farm owners if the dogs gave them dogs, to take ownership of local governments and managing the hostels.

Recovery, however, has proven challenges.

Weight gain is in dog meat industry, farms tend to leave larger breeds. But it is a very urbanized society in South Korea, when many people live in complex apartments, pet owners often want to vice versa.

There is also a social stigma related to dog farm farms, Mr. Lee explains due to diseases and trauma concerns. The subject is more complicated, many that many purely or mixed tosa-inu, which requires the “dangerous” of the South Korea and requires government acceptance as a pet.

Meanwhile, rescue shelters are already overflowing.

This perfect obstacle storm represents the perversion of irony: the so-called rescue dog to go anywhere else, in the face of euthanasia.

“It’s incredible,” says Chan-Woo.

“Since the law was done according to the demands of these groups, I also assumed that they would have a solution to dogs that would take responsibility for them. But now I think groups of animal rights also say euthanasia.”

Cho Hee-Kyung, the head of the Korean animal welfare association, was given in September 2024, while the rights of rights would try to rescue as many animals as possible, “dogs remain”.

“If the rest of the dogs are lost and abandoned to animals,” it’s heart-heart, but they will be euthanasia, “he said.

The government wanted to spend these concerns a few weeks later, saying that Euthanasia was not “certainly”.

Recently, MAFR said that About $ 6 Billion was investing, animal shelters and private facilities to protect and win up to 600,000 Korea per dog ($ 450; 324) closed their businesses.

But Chun Myung-Sun, Director of the Veterinary Medicine of the National University of Seoul agrees that the wider plan of excessive dogs is missing.

“It should be a concrete discussion about how to throw dogs,” he explained.

“Adoption and euthanasia should be on the table. (But) If they have gone to rescue dogs from the cruel murder, it is understandable to feel the heart and angry.”

Some have more solutions searched, sending animals abroad abroad, sending it to harder adoptions in countries like Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

In 2023, a group of HwAke rescued 200 dogs from a farm farm, all sent to Canada and the United States.

The owner of this farmhouse, 74-year-old Yang Jong-Tae, told the BBC when the Savior loaded the dogs when they were loaded in trucks, showed the compassion.

“When I saw how they managed animals, they were manipulating people, so slowly and loving – really moved me,” he said.

“We don’t treat it that way. For us, it was just a way to live dogs.

Mr. Yang, however, added, however, that the dog flesh had declined the ban on agriculture.

“If the dog flesh is forbidden, dogs are animals, why is it ok eat other animals like cows, pigs or chickens?” He said. “It’s the same. These things exist in nature to live people.”

Eating the dog is not eating other meat according to Mrs. Chun. It has indicated that it has a higher risk of food safety and hygiene perspective – especially in South Korea, where it has not been integrated into a formal meat production system.

While consumer rates have changed throughout Korean history, it has become more and more taboos in recent years.

A government survey 2024 said that only 8% of the 2024s have tried in 2015.

Meanwhile, there was 1,537 South Korean dog farms 2025 June 623.

“As societies and culture evolves, South Korean society has decided to produce dog meat,” says Mrs. Chun.

And yet it remains the main focus of the industry that has built his life for many.

Each member of the dog’s meat trade has expressed uncertainty about the way BBC to protect himself, as they believe that the long-standing livelihood is illegal.

Some say they have refused the life of poverty, they were born in the Korean War and learned how hungry they lived. Others suggested that the commercial could go through the ground.

Many agree, however, that the crack for younger farmers is particularly disturbing.

“The young people of this industry are in front of a shameless reality,” Joo Mr. Joo said. “Since they can’t sell dogs, they can’t quickly close. They are stuck, forward or without retrospect.”

Chan-Woo remembers that when it was a decade ago, at the age of 23, “the perception of the dog’s meat was not negative.”

“Still,” he added, “There have been some comments from people around me, so too, I wasn’t something I could do for the rest of my life.”

The ban came faster than expected, and since the prediction progressed, he said: “Being life will make it very sure.”

“Everything we are waiting for for now is that the grace period can be extended to the process (to deal with other dogs) to prevent gradually.”

They expect a lot of others the same. But as it comes from the intersection of those who have arrived at the dog’s flesh, Joo Mr. Joo cannot think in rough thinking: maybe some farmers could not survive much more uncertainty.

“Right now keeping people right, something expected to change – maybe the grace will be extended,” he noted. “But in 2027, I really think something horrible will happen.

“There are so many people who have completely clarified lives.”