Dogaid Australia targets
Korean governments

In China, where dogs suffer similar fates, these unfortunates await their turn for slaughter.

It is assisting IAKA to stop the brutal torture of dogs and cats in South Korea.

Kyenan Kum is the Founder of IAKA in California and Sunan Kum runs the Korean Animal Protection Society (KAPS) shelter in South Korea. Dogaid is a non-registered group but is supported by IAKA which is a registered society internationally.

The website of Dogaid Australia is: www.dogaid.freeservers.com and there is also an on-line petitionwhere readers can sign their names to help the dogs: http://www.petitionpetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=2304

In South Korea it is believed that the more pain you inflict on dogs the better the aphrodisiac effect (proved scientifically to be incorrect) so the South Koreans cut the dogs tongues out, then they hang them, drop them to the ground and beat them with iron poles and break their legs, then they drag them to the slaughter yards where the electrocute the dogs and throw them in boiling hot caldrons that have a whirlpool action to remove the fur. Dogs are often still alive at that stage. Once the fur is removed they blow-torch off the remaining fur. Then the dog is butchered into pieces and sold at the market places for consumption. Sometimes the dogs may be also skinned for their fur.

Cats are boiled alive to make cat soup for rheumatism benefits but are often beaten in a sack before being thrown in to the hot water. This practice is barbaric and these animals endure so much pain they suffer terrible deaths.

South Korea does have an animal protection law which was enacted in 1991 but the government turns a blind eye to this law and lets these terrible tortures continue.

The law states that there is a big fine and a jail term for terrible acts of cruelty. As far as is known there have so far been no prosecutions. So Dogaid in Victoria is trying to get public support and put pressure on the South Korean Government to stop the slaughter of these lovely dogs and cats (our companion animals).

IAKA is working hard and has had international exposure through demonstrations in London, New York, Australia, Canada, Europe and Africa. South Korea will be hosting the World Cup Soccer in June 2002. Dogaid members and supporters are not going to support Korea in the World Cup, its businesses or any products it sells to Australia - they will not buy any products from South Korea until things change for these animals.

(NB: Petition link is from 2001 and is now inactive)