South Korea has banned the meat of the dog. So what happens to dogs?

When promoting God’s word, reverend Joo Yeong-Bong, increases dogs for the massacre.

Although the job is not going well. In fact, it is on the verge of being illegal.

“Since last summer, we are trying to sell our dogs, but traders are only hesitant,” he said, Mr. Joo, 60, BBC. “No one was alone.”

In 2024, the South Korean government carried out a national ban on the sale of dog meat for consumption. Pondering from January last year, until February 2027, Mr. Joo, like Mr. Joo, is like selling the rest of their animals.

However, many do not have time for the stages of an industry that prepare livelihoods for generations, and these authorities do not result in the necessary security measures for farmers or half million dogs.

Those who support the ban, including experts and animal rights defenders, are now on the threat of euthanasia, including the difficulties of the dogs rescuing from the floor of killing.

In the middle of the compromise, hundreds of dog farmers find themselves in the fact that hundreds of virtually uninhabited animals, farms, and to put food on the table.

Saying “people suffer,” says Mr. Joo, the president of a group of Korean edible dogs representing the industry. “We drowned in debt, we can’t afford it, and some … We can’t find new jobs.

“This is a hopeless situation.”

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

After that, the 33-year-old meat farm, which we agree to anonymity for the fear of retreating, was fined until two years.

“In reality, even in the farm, I cannot process the number of dogs at that time,” he says. “At this point I invested all my assets (farm) – but they do not even receive dogs.”

With “They”, Chan-woo, before being banned, means traders and butchers who will receive a few-seats a few people a week.

According to the government’s activists and authorities who struggle with Dog meat trade, government estimates, according to the government, do not have an open plan for what the rest of the animals do.

“They (power) passed the law without any real plan and now say they could not get the dogs.”

Lee Sangkyung, a campaign manager in the human world for animals reflects these concerns, Korea (HWAK).

“Although the dog ban the ban, both government and civil groups fight the remaining dogs,” he says. “A field that is still lacking is the discussion around the remaining dogs.”

A spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Village (MAFRA) told BBC that farm owners refuse their dogs, he said he would manage the ownership and shelters of local governments.

Proved to be difficult to rehaoming them.

Farmers prefer larger breeds because the weight of the dog earned in the meat industry. However, in a highly urbanized society in South Korea, many people live in housing complexes, the owners of pets often refer to the opposite.

There is a social stigma that comes from meat farms, Mr. Lee explains because of disease and trauma concerns. The issue is a breed, or a breed, which is classified as “dangerous” in South Korea or is a breed of pure or mixed Tosa.

Meanwhile, rescue shelters are already full.

This perfect storm of these perfect obstacles point to a perverted irony: many countless rescue dogs, go from another place, now face the prospect of becoming evanize.

“It’s just incredible,” says Chan-Woo.

“As the law has been held in accordance with the requirements of these groups, I hear that even animal rights groups say euthanasia, as they have been held responsible for them.”

Korean Animals Welfare Association President Cho hee-kyung, in September 2024, law groups will be able to save as many animals as possible, “Dogs will be left.”

“If the remaining dogs were ‘lost and abandoned animals’, it is heartwarming, but it will be evil,” he said.

The government asked these concerns after weeks, “Of course,” he said.

Recently, the Mafra has won about 6 billion Korean koreans ($ 4.3m; £ 3.2m) to expand animal shelters and support private opportunities to the BBC and won the farmers ($ 450; £ 324).

However, Chun Myung-Sun, director of the Veterinary Medical Education Department at Seoul National University, accepts the lack of a much more plan for the government’s left.

“How ‘how’ dogs’ should be ‘how’ to ‘be a concrete discussion’ says.

“Both seques and euthanasia should be on the table.

Some searched the solutions that send more animals for more willing adopters in countries such as Canada, United Kingdom and the United Kingdom.

In 2023, a team from Hwak rescued 200 dogs on a farm from an farm in the city that has saved 200 dogs – Sent to Canada and the United States since today.

The former owner of this farm, 74-year-old Yang Jong-Tae, said that this was stated by the level of compassion, as it was watching the dogs loading their cars.

“When you see how they work animals – like people, they worked so softly and love – really moved me.”

“We do not treat them.

Mr. Yang was in a hurry to add that the dog rejects the ban on the farm.

“If the dog is forbidden, the dogs are animals, then why do other animals like cows, pigs and chickens?” Said. “The same thing. These things are available in nature to live people.”

According to Mrs. Chun, eating the dog eating with other meat food. He is more risky than the prospect of food security and hygiene of the dog – is not integrated into South Korea, an official, adjustable meat production system.

Although the consumer rates are waved throughout the history of Korea, it has become a taboo in recent years.

A government survey since 2024, only 8% of respondents have tested the dog meat, which is below 27% of the previous 12 months in 2015, he said.

Meanwhile, As of June 2025, 623 of South Korea’s 9,237 dog farm was closed.

“As society and culture developed, the South Korean society has now decided to stop the production of the dog,” Ms Chun said.

Again, many remain the cornerstone of an industry they build their lives.

Each member of the dog meat was said that the BBC, now the uncertainty that they support themselves, they said they were illegally considered illegal.

Some say that they were born during the Korean War, and how he knew how the hunger resigned, he said they resigned poverty. Others suggested that the trade could be underground.

However, many are especially concerned about the basket for younger farmers.

“In this industry, young people really face a reality,” Mr. Joo said. “They can’t tie the dogs or not quickly tie quickly. They do not return.”

Chan-Woo reminds me of 23 years old, when he started working in the industry a decade ago, “The perception of the dog was not so negative.”

“Still,” added: “There were some comments from the people around me, so I knew that I didn’t have anything I could do for the rest of my life.”

Ban came faster than expected – and says “accommodation is incredibly uncusible” since the announcement.

“We hope that this is the fact that the process (remaining dogs) process can occur more gradually.”

Many hope for the same thing. However, because the dog meat industry is removed from the bottom of the feet of it, Mr. Joo cannot help, but a sad thought cannot help: for some farmers to endure uncertainty.

“Currently, people still hold, something can change – maybe the grace period will be extended,” he says. “But I believe it will be really a terrible thing until 2027.

“There is a lot of people to be opened to life.”