YeinJee's Asian Journal » Seongnam City http://yeinjee.com Popular blog on Asian culture, lifestyle, entertainment, food, travel, otaku, trends, traditions, pictures, videos, and offbeat stuff. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Koreans protest dog eating http://yeinjee.com/2008/koreans-protest-dog-eating/ http://yeinjee.com/2008/koreans-protest-dog-eating/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:28:21 +0000 Yein Jee http://yeinjee.com/?p=1181 A group of Korean animal rights activists held a demonstration at a large dog meat market in Seongnam-si (near Seoul) last weekend to protest against dog eating.

South Koreans protest eating dog meat in Seongnam
Koreans protest against dog eating (Image from Chosun)

Dog meat is a common food in Korea; Koreans have been eating dog meat for thousand of years. One of the popular dishes is Bosintang (literally ‘invigorating soup’), a traditional Korean soup with dog meat as its primary ingredient which is very popular during summer season.

It’s estimated that over a million of dogs are slaughtered every year in Korea to meet market demand. The younger Korean generations however are beginning to ditch this tradition.

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