Dog meat has finally been banned in South Korea. The upsetting centuries-old tradition was brought to an end with the passing of a bill that bans the breeding or slaughter of dogs in dog farms and ...

South Korea’s parliament passed a landmark bill in January that will ban slaughtering, breeding or selling dog meat for human consumption after a three-year grace period. It will be punishable ...

SEOUL--South Korea on Thursday said it’ll launch a task force to consider outlawing dog meat consumption, about two months after the country’s president offered to look into ending the ...

Pressure on South Korea to end the sale and consumption of dog meat, a declining culinary tradition, is growing as activists and athletes stepped up their campaign at the Winter Olympics.

Lawmakers in South Korea passed a bill on Tuesday that will ban the farming, slaughter and sale of dog meat by 2027. WSJ Korea Bureau Chief Timothy W. Martin explains what led to the decision.

South Korea offers subsidies to farmers ahead of 2027 dog meat ban Per Reuters , Vice Agriculture Minister Park Beom-su said the government would spend about KRW 100 billion (USD 75 million) on ...

Simon Cowell Simon Cowell is calling for the end of the dog meat trade in South Korea, where more than 2.5 million canines are bred for consumption annually. The methods used to kill the dogs are ...

the Korea Herald reports. However, he stopped short on a complete ban on dog meat trade, saying instead that it should be phased out. Tory joins the president's two other pets - a dog called "Maru ...

Kenworthy himself agreed with comments about the size of the dog meat trade in South Korea versus the wider meat trade in the US, citing it as the reason that there is "an opportunity to make real ...