Comedian Ro Hong-chul has come under fire for alleged animal abuse after posting photos taken next to a sleeping lion in Tanzania.
In Korea, the legal protection to own animals, even for owners convicted of repeated offenses toward animals, exists. Now, that may finally be changing.
The government has launched an investigation into allegations that bullfighting organizers were drugging bulls to fight through injuries.
Police in Daejeon’s Dong District are investigating a gruesome animal abuse case involving multiple stray cats that were found badly burned. The Daejeon Dongbu Police Precinct said Tuesday it is investigating allegations of animal cruelty.
A district court sentenced a man to a suspended prison term for killing a stray cat by trapping it in a rubber traffic cone, stomping it to death and setting it on fire, court officials said Wednesday.
Animal abuse or tradition? A bullfighting tournament opened in Cheongdo County, North Gyeongsang, on Wednesday, once again igniting fierce debate between supporters who call it traditional folk custom and critics who denounce it as animal cruelty.
A man who killed 11 pets “because he was stressed out” was sentenced to prison and taken into custody by an appellate court, a ruling that overturned a suspended sentence handed down in the initial trial.
Two Marines who severely injured pet dogs by firing hundreds of BBs at them in Geoje, South Gyeongsang, are on track to be discharged without any disciplinary action.
An animal pharmaceutical company based in Iksan, North Jeolla, is under investigation after being accused of euthanizing adopted dogs and using their corpses for dissection practice.
Police in Cheonan booked a man in his 50s for allegedly killing his dog by dragging it behind an electric bicycle.
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