South Korea announced today a new practice of law that will train to terminate the sale and slaughter of dogs for their meat by 2027 .
presently , it is estimated that South Korea has around 1,600 frump meat eating place and 1,150 dog farms in 2023 , accord toBBC News .
In the body politic , frump center stew , or " boshintang " , is considered a fragility among the older generation but with younger people it has fallen out of favour .
The ban will see that the raising and slaughtering of dog for their core will be ostracise , as will the practices of distributing and selling dog meat . The country ’s national assembly voted to ban the raising , butchery , statistical distribution , and cut-rate sale of dogs for their centre , it was annunciate .
Under the fresh law , those that weaken these rules and whipping dogs will face around three years in prison or a maximal fine of 30 million won ( $ 23,000 ) , while those selling detent nub or raising dogs for inwardness could serve well a two - year condemnation .
The phthisis of hotdog kernel itself will not become illegal . The law will come into stead in 2027 to provide those involved in the dog meat manufacture to phase out their business and find alternative use . The government of South Korea has said that it will support those whose businesses are affect but details of what that will look like have yet to be let go .
The change reflects a dissimilar position among the younger coevals in South Korea who are more disposed to see detent as family unit pets rather than have the opinion that dog meat is the same as pork or beef or chicken . According to a resume byGallup Korea , and reported byCNN , the number of people who had eaten dog meat in the last 12 calendar month had fall from 27 percent in 2015 to 8 pct in 2022 .
Not everyone is glad about the new jurisprudence . Traditionallydog meatwas have in the summer to help hoi polloi beat the heat and was a cheap rootage of protein .
" We ’ve use up this since the Middle Ages . Why discontinue us from eating our traditional nutrient ? If you ostracise cad sum then you should ban beef , " Kim Seon - ho , an 86 - year - old Seoul local , assure the BBC .
brute welfare campaigner on the other hand are thrilled with the news after they have been putting imperativeness on the governing to make this modification for many years .
“ This is history in the qualification , ” JungAh Chae , the executive director of Humane Society International / Korea , told theGuardian . “ I never think I would see in my lifetime a forbidding on the cruel dog sum industry in South Korea , but this historical win for animals is will to the mania and determination of our animate being trade protection motion . "
