Success: South Korea’s Largest Dog Slaughterhouse Eradicated

Target: Eun Soo Mi, Mayor of Seongnam City, South Korea

Goal: Applaud closure of facility that tortured and killed thousands of dogs.

In South Korea, innocent dogs often face brutal torture and eventual slaughter for their meat. Increasing numbers of passionate advocates, including those represented in this ForceChange petition, have called for the closure of torture chambers that enable these horrific practices. Thanks to these unyielding efforts, South Korea’s largest dog slaughterhouse complex will soon be no more.

The Taepyeong-dong facility in South Korean Seongnam City likely oversaw the deaths of thousands, if not millions, of canines since its inception. When individuals granted access saw the inside of this prison for themselves, they were horrified. Instruments of torture—electrocution devices, de-hairing machines, and sharp butcher’s tools—dotted all six slaughterhouses. In one corner lay a mass of killed dogs. Authorities believe that the hundreds of dogs imprisoned in these facilities at a time witnessed horrors that only compounded their own abuse. Dogs were allegedly routinely electrocuted and massacred in front of their fellow prisoners.

The exposure of these atrocities and continued activism against a waning dog meat delicacy trade in South Korea shut down a facility that provided meat for many restaurants across the country. Countless future lives have been spared. Most promising of all, the door is wide open for more closures of killing chambers.

Sign this petition to support a landmark step forward in the fight against canine abuse and slaughter in South Korea.

PETITION LETTER:

Dear Mayor Soo Mi,

In a short time, the dark history of South Korea’s most prolific dog slaughterhouse will be bulldozed. The Taepyeong-dong facility that once contained six abuse-laden, inhumane slaughterhouses will have a chance at a new beginning as a public park. Thank you for transforming something horrific into an instrument for community unity and positive growth.

Please help the country as a whole turn a new page on inhumanity. Help this slaughterhouse become a leader in a different way, an example, and a precedent: one of many closures to come. Make this important decision a forceful rejection of the mistreatment of any living being. Put the ‘humanity’ back in humanity.

Sincerely,

[Your Name Here]

Photo Credit: Jung Yeong