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South Korea's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill banning breeding, slaughtering and selling dogs for their meat, a traditional practice that activists have called an embarrassment for the country.

Animal welfare campaigners hail decision as ‘historic victory’ after years of pressure at home and abroad

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Bill will come into effect in three years and will end sale and supply of canine meat

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The bill would make the slaughtering, breeding, trade and sales of dog meat for human consumption illegal from 2027 and punish such acts with 2-3 years in prison.

South Korea’s parliament has endorsed legislation outlawing the country's dog meat industry

South Korea’s bachelor time bomb is about to really go off. Following a historic 30-year-long imbalance in the male-to-female sex ratio at birth, young men far outnumber young women in the country. As a result, some 700,000 to 800,000 “extra” South Korean boys born since the mid-1980s may not be…

The slaying of a South Korean woman during an initiation process for a group that called itself Soldiers of Christ has shocked the large Korean American community in metro Atlanta

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North Korea's latest artillery drills near the South Korean border raise tensions in the region. With military exercises and warnings of imminent war, the ...