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*Because **NYC** Could Be BETTER!! - 28 Feb 2004 05:54 GMT Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 8:09pm (EST-3)
URGENT - "Write to Embassies & Consulates" Reply to: AnimalProgress@yahoogroups.com
----- Original Message -----
Subject: URGENT - "Write to Embassies & Consulates"
**ALSO URGENT** PLEASE WRITE YOUR CLOSEST KOREAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE "TELL THEM TO STOP THE LIES" Dear friends of Korean animals, Please also write to your nearest Korean Embassy or Consulate. Sample letters listed below and addresses at the end of this letter. Thank you, Kyenan Kum IAKA Founder Remember: Embassy & Consulate Addresses are at the end of this letter.
SAMPLE LETTERS
Sample Letters to Embassies or Consulates:
UK / World Size (A4 - MS Word Doc.)
US Size (8.5 x 11- MS Word Doc.)
Sample letter to Embassy or Consulate:
Dear Embassy/Consulate,
The Korean Government claims their new amendment focuses on strengthening the protection of animals by numerous measures. However, the 1991 Animal Protection Law already bans cruelty to all animals and yet the Korean Government has simply failed to enforce the law.
The new Amendment does strengthen some penalties against offenders and introduces some regulations for the pet industry, but does nothing to improve efforts to stop the illegal dog and cat meat trade - killing millions of dogs and cats each year.
Worse, the definition of pet animals introduced in the Amendment is a clever way of giving legitimacy to the dog and cat meat trade. If the law only recognizes a dog or a cat as a pet animal when their owner's intention is to raise them for companionship, a dog or a cat can also be treated as food or medicine according to their owner's intention.
This is especially a big problem when the Korean Government secretly eliminated dog stew from its list of disgusting f ood in the Food Sanitation Law of 1984 that could not be sold legally.
What the Korean Government should concede and openly acknowledge is that the dog and cat meat trade thrives on lies and greed.
Until the millions of dogs and cats in the markets are included in the definition of pet animals, making no distinction between them, this Amendment causes far more harm than good for Korean animals.
The Korean Government's strategy to defend dog meat as "our food culture" is a blatant revision of history that damages Korea's image abroad.
Dogs were never a dietary tradition in Korea's long history; even during desperate times they were only the vice of older men seeking to enhance their sexual potency.
Cats have only been consumed in tonics since the 1980s. Greed, loss of wild life, and fraudulent health benefits brought them to market.
This amendment tells us that many more animals will continue to be killed for fraudulent health foods like dog-stew-viagra and cat-juice-tonic, whose alleged benefits depend on torture, steroids, and narcotics.
The Korean Government's deceitful diplomatic solution questions your level of commitment to responsible and just animal protection laws, as well for decent consumer fraud and health protection.
The Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS), International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA), and caring Koreans will win their campaign, because the dog and cat meat trade is already illegal and not a part of Korean tradition or culture - most Koreans do not eat them and millions prefer to have them as pets.
They will only lose if secrecy, nationalist lies, and corruption prevail. The truth and law is on their side.
Please support KAPS/IAKA by urging the Government to finally take responsibility for the millions of dogs and cats illegally slaughtered and consumed each year in the markets.
Korea can not take pride in defending the indefensible false-tradition of dog-eating, while ignoring the very courageous and purely homegrown Korean Animal Protection Society that truly defends Korea's real culture and traditions by doing the right thing for their people and their animals.
There is no honor in choosing a LIE as a symbol of Korean culture to defend against international criticism, and all for the benefit of a greedy few butchers and consumers, who have already wiped out much of Korea's wildlife.
Please stand up for Korea by defending worthwhile traditions and values based on truth and justice instead. The only way for the Korean Government to rid itself of this shameful international reputation is to stand behind Korea's own caring people and close down the dog and cat markets on their behalf, not the international communities.
The Korean Government must begin to responsibly educate Koreans about the myths of dog and cat meat-products and promptly enforce adequate laws protecting all dogs and cats from abuse and slaughter, as well as finding these butchers alternative sources of income.
Until then, we will only support amendments that strengthen protections so that no dog and cat is left behind in the markets to be slaughtered and consumed for a dangerous and fraudulent health food market.
Please protect Korea's animals and consumers from this illegal industry. Kindest regards,
Name: Address:
0000000000000000000000000000000000
ADDRESSES:
Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's World Map of Consulates and Embassies http://www.mofat.go.kr/mission/missions_map_en.mof
Korean Embasies and Consulates in US http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/koreaus/consulates/eng_info.cfm
Brief List of Korean Embassies and Consulates Embassy of The Republic of Korea in U.S. 2320 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008, Tel: (202) 939-5600, Fax: (202) 387-0413, http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/ Embassy of The Republic of Korea in London, United Kingdom Ambassador : Lee Tae-sik, 60 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AJ, United Kingdom, Tel. : 44 - (0)20 - 7227-5500, Fax : 44 - (0)20 - 7227-5503, mailto:koreanembinuk@mofat.go.kr Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Darussalam, Brunei - No 17, Simpang 212-28, Kg. Rimba, Jalan Kg. Rimba, Brunei. BE3119. P.O.Box 2169, Bandar Seri Begawan BS8674, Brunei. Tel: 673 - 2426038, 2426039, 2426040. Fax: 673- 2426041. mailto: koreaemb@brunet.bn
General Consulate of The Republic of Korea in Shanghai, China - 4th Floor Shanghai Int'l Trade Center, 2200 Yan An Road (W), Shanghai, China. Tel: (86-21) 6219 - 6417 20. Fax: (86-21) 6219 - 6918. Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Jakarta, Indonesia - Jl. Gend. Gatot Subroto 57, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia. Tel: (62-21) 520 - 1915. Fax: (62-21) 525 - 4159.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Dublin, Ireland - 15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: + (353 -1) - 660 - 8800/8053, 668 - 2109. Fax: (+353-1) - 660 - 8716. Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Rome, Italy - Via Barnaba Oriani 30, 00197 Rome, Italy. Tel: (39) 06 - 808 - 8769, 8820/1, 8875, 8912. Fax: (39) 06 - 8068 - 7794.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Tokyo, Japan - 1-2-5, Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan ( 106-8577). Tel: (81-3) 3452 - 7611/9. Fax: (81-3) 5232 - 6911. Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Wellington, New Zealand - 11th Floor ASB Bank Tower, 2 Hunter Street, Wellington, New Zealand.
OR
PO BOX 11-143, Manners Street, Wellington, New Zealand. Tel: (64-4) 473 - 9073 /4. Fax: (64-4) 472 - 3865. mailto:koreaemb@worldnet.co.nz
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Islamabad, Pakistan - Block 13, St.29, Diplomatic Enclave II, G-5/4, Islamabad, Pakistan. G.P.O. Box 1087. Tel: (92-51) 227 - 9380/2, 227 - 9395/7. Fax: (92-51) 227 - 9391. mailto:koremb1@comsats.net.pk
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Taipei, Taiwan - Rm 1506, No.333, Sec.1, Kee-Lung Rd., Taipei, Taiwan. Tel: (886-2) 2758 - 8320/5. Fax: (886-2) 2757 - 7006.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Bangkok, Thailand - 23 Thiam-Ruammit Road, Ratchadapisek, Huay Kwang, Bangkok 10320. Tel: 2477537 - 41. Fax: 2477535. mailto:korembas@kormail.net Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Ankara, Turkey - Alacam Sokak No.5, Cinnah Caddesi, Cankaya, Ankara 06690, Turkey. Tel: +90 - 312 - 468 - 4821/22/23, 467 - 7449, 427 - 1743. Fax: +90 - 312 - 468 - 2279. mailto:turkey@mofat.go.kr Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Hanoi, Vietnam - 4 th Fl., Dae Ha Business Center, Kim Ma Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tel: (84-4) 831 - 5111/6. Fax: (84-4) 831 - 5117. mailto: korembviet@mofat.go.kr
You can also write personal letters urging the Korean Government to:
Introduce new clearly-enforceable laws Ban slaughter, abuse, and consumption of ALL DOGS & CATS once and for all Define ALL DOGS & CATS as "PET ANIMALS"
Enforce existing laws that prohibit the abuse and consumption of dogs and cats. Please send Korean Government protest letters to:
President Roh, Moo-Hyun Blue House 1 Sejong-Ro, Jongno-gu Seoul South Korea, 110-050 malto:webmaster@president.go.kr
mailto:webmaster@korea.net
Minister Huh Sang-Man The Ministry of Agriculture 1 Jungang-dong, Gwacheon Gyeonggi Prov. South Korea, 427-760 -or- mailto:webmaster@maf.go.kr
Rita Fazio, Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS) International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA) http://www.koreananimals.org/index.htm Don't turn your back upon their pain, because it's hard to see.They have no other place to turn, They've only you and me.
To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AnimalProgress/ 000000000000000000000 this message was x-posted by the .sig-holder as a community service. no sponsorship nor aurhorization is intended or implied. ooooooooooooooooooooo PS: Excellent vector for transpecies virii, injecting or injesting narcotics mixed with fresh or rotten dog and cat blood or reproductive organs or nervous tissue.-- especially undourgournd and unregulated or medically unmonitored such. How this will affect tourism to and exports from korea is a difficult question indeed. 0000000000000000000000000
(-->>BeTTeR LiVinG Thru BetteR LiVING !!<<----)
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bas - 28 Feb 2004 16:13 GMT I hope a lot op people will sign to stop this terrible crawlty. I did sign en send this , to a lot of friends
Bas http://www.geocities.com/turbo502002/
"*Because **NYC** Could Be BETTER!!" <rosaphilia@webtv.net> schreef in bericht news:3570-40402D0B-5@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net...
Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 8:09pm (EST-3)
URGENT - "Write to Embassies & Consulates" Reply to: AnimalProgress@yahoogroups.com
----- Original Message -----
Subject: URGENT - "Write to Embassies & Consulates"
**ALSO URGENT**
PLEASE WRITE YOUR CLOSEST KOREAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE
"TELL THEM TO STOP THE LIES"
Dear friends of Korean animals,
Please also write to your nearest Korean Embassy or Consulate. Sample letters listed below and addresses at the end of this letter.
Thank you, Kyenan Kum IAKA Founder
Remember: Embassy & Consulate Addresses are at the end of this letter.
SAMPLE LETTERS
Sample Letters to Embassies or Consulates:
UK / World Size (A4 - MS Word Doc.)
US Size (8.5 x 11- MS Word Doc.)
Sample letter to Embassy or Consulate:
Dear Embassy/Consulate,
The Korean Government claims their new amendment focuses on strengthening the protection of animals by numerous measures. However, the 1991 Animal Protection Law already bans cruelty to all animals and yet the Korean Government has simply failed to enforce the law.
The new Amendment does strengthen some penalties against offenders and introduces some regulations for the pet industry, but does nothing to improve efforts to stop the illegal dog and cat meat trade - killing millions of dogs and cats each year.
Worse, the definition of pet animals introduced in the Amendment is a clever way of giving legitimacy to the dog and cat meat trade. If the law only recognizes a dog or a cat as a pet animal when their owner's intention is to raise them for companionship, a dog or a cat can also be treated as food or medicine according to their owner's intention.
This is especially a big problem when the Korean Government secretly eliminated dog stew from its list of disgusting f ood in the Food Sanitation Law of 1984 that could not be sold legally.
What the Korean Government should concede and openly acknowledge is that the dog and cat meat trade thrives on lies and greed.
Until the millions of dogs and cats in the markets are included in the definition of pet animals, making no distinction between them, this Amendment causes far more harm than good for Korean animals.
The Korean Government's strategy to defend dog meat as "our food culture" is a blatant revision of history that damages Korea's image abroad.
Dogs were never a dietary tradition in Korea's long history; even during desperate times they were only the vice of older men seeking to enhance their sexual potency.
Cats have only been consumed in tonics since the 1980s. Greed, loss of wild life, and fraudulent health benefits brought them to market.
This amendment tells us that many more animals will continue to be killed for fraudulent health foods like dog-stew-viagra and cat-juice-tonic, whose alleged benefits depend on torture, steroids, and narcotics.
The Korean Government's deceitful diplomatic solution questions your level of commitment to responsible and just animal protection laws, as well for decent consumer fraud and health protection.
The Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS), International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA), and caring Koreans will win their campaign, because the dog and cat meat trade is already illegal and not a part of Korean tradition or culture - most Koreans do not eat them and millions prefer to have them as pets.
They will only lose if secrecy, nationalist lies, and corruption prevail. The truth and law is on their side.
Please support KAPS/IAKA by urging the Government to finally take responsibility for the millions of dogs and cats illegally slaughtered and consumed each year in the markets.
Korea can not take pride in defending the indefensible false-tradition of dog-eating, while ignoring the very courageous and purely homegrown Korean Animal Protection Society that truly defends Korea's real culture and traditions by doing the right thing for their people and their animals.
There is no honor in choosing a LIE as a symbol of Korean culture to defend against international criticism, and all for the benefit of a greedy few butchers and consumers, who have already wiped out much of Korea's wildlife.
Please stand up for Korea by defending worthwhile traditions and values based on truth and justice instead. The only way for the Korean Government to rid itself of this shameful international reputation is to stand behind Korea's own caring people and close down the dog and cat markets on their behalf, not the international communities.
The Korean Government must begin to responsibly educate Koreans about the myths of dog and cat meat-products and promptly enforce adequate laws protecting all dogs and cats from abuse and slaughter, as well as finding these butchers alternative sources of income.
Until then, we will only support amendments that strengthen protections so that no dog and cat is left behind in the markets to be slaughtered and consumed for a dangerous and fraudulent health food market.
Please protect Korea's animals and consumers from this illegal industry. Kindest regards,
Name: Address:
0000000000000000000000000000000000
ADDRESSES:
Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's World Map of Consulates and Embassies http://www.mofat.go.kr/mission/missions_map_en.mof
Korean Embasies and Consulates in US http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/koreaus/consulates/eng_info.cfm
Brief List of Korean Embassies and Consulates Embassy of The Republic of Korea in U.S. 2320 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008, Tel: (202) 939-5600, Fax: (202) 387-0413, http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in London, United Kingdom Ambassador : Lee Tae-sik, 60 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AJ, United Kingdom, Tel. : 44 - (0)20 - 7227-5500, Fax : 44 - (0)20 - 7227-5503, mailto:koreanembinuk@mofat.go.kr
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Darussalam, Brunei - No 17, Simpang 212-28, Kg. Rimba, Jalan Kg. Rimba, Brunei. BE3119. P.O.Box 2169, Bandar Seri Begawan BS8674, Brunei. Tel: 673 - 2426038, 2426039, 2426040. Fax: 673- 2426041. mailto: koreaemb@brunet.bn
General Consulate of The Republic of Korea in Shanghai, China - 4th Floor Shanghai Int'l Trade Center, 2200 Yan An Road (W), Shanghai, China. Tel: (86-21) 6219 - 6417 20. Fax: (86-21) 6219 - 6918.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Jakarta, Indonesia - Jl. Gend. Gatot Subroto 57, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia. Tel: (62-21) 520 - 1915. Fax: (62-21) 525 - 4159.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Dublin, Ireland - 15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: + (353 -1) - 660 - 8800/8053, 668 - 2109. Fax: (+353-1) - 660 - 8716.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Rome, Italy - Via Barnaba Oriani 30, 00197 Rome, Italy. Tel: (39) 06 - 808 - 8769, 8820/1, 8875, 8912. Fax: (39) 06 - 8068 - 7794.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Tokyo, Japan - 1-2-5, Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan ( 106-8577). Tel: (81-3) 3452 - 7611/9. Fax: (81-3) 5232 - 6911.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Wellington, New Zealand - 11th Floor ASB Bank Tower, 2 Hunter Street, Wellington, New Zealand.
OR
PO BOX 11-143, Manners Street, Wellington, New Zealand. Tel: (64-4) 473 - 9073 /4. Fax: (64-4) 472 - 3865. mailto:koreaemb@worldnet.co.nz
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Islamabad, Pakistan - Block 13, St.29, Diplomatic Enclave II, G-5/4, Islamabad, Pakistan. G.P.O. Box 1087. Tel: (92-51) 227 - 9380/2, 227 - 9395/7. Fax: (92-51) 227 - 9391. mailto:koremb1@comsats.net.pk
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Taipei, Taiwan - Rm 1506, No.333, Sec.1, Kee-Lung Rd., Taipei, Taiwan. Tel: (886-2) 2758 - 8320/5. Fax: (886-2) 2757 - 7006.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Bangkok, Thailand - 23 Thiam-Ruammit Road, Ratchadapisek, Huay Kwang, Bangkok 10320. Tel: 2477537 - 41. Fax: 2477535. mailto:korembas@kormail.net
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Ankara, Turkey - Alacam Sokak No.5, Cinnah Caddesi, Cankaya, Ankara 06690, Turkey. Tel: +90 - 312 - 468 - 4821/22/23, 467 - 7449, 427 - 1743. Fax: +90 - 312 - 468 - 2279. mailto:turkey@mofat.go.kr
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Hanoi, Vietnam - 4 th Fl., Dae Ha Business Center, Kim Ma Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tel: (84-4) 831 - 5111/6. Fax: (84-4) 831 - 5117. mailto: korembviet@mofat.go.kr
You can also write personal letters urging the Korean Government to:
Introduce new clearly-enforceable laws Ban slaughter, abuse, and consumption of ALL DOGS & CATS once and for all Define ALL DOGS & CATS as "PET ANIMALS"
Enforce existing laws that prohibit the abuse and consumption of dogs and cats. Please send Korean Government protest letters to:
President Roh, Moo-Hyun Blue House 1 Sejong-Ro, Jongno-gu Seoul South Korea, 110-050 malto:webmaster@president.go.kr
mailto:webmaster@korea.net
Minister Huh Sang-Man The Ministry of Agriculture 1 Jungang-dong, Gwacheon Gyeonggi Prov. South Korea, 427-760 -or- mailto:webmaster@maf.go.kr
Rita Fazio,
Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS) International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA) http://www.koreananimals.org/index.htm
Don't turn your back upon their pain, because it's hard to see.They have no other place to turn, They've only you and me.
To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AnimalProgress/ 000000000000000000000 this message was x-posted by the .sig-holder as a community service. no sponsorship nor aurhorization is intended or implied. ooooooooooooooooooooo PS: Excellent vector for transpecies virii, injecting or injesting narcotics mixed with fresh or rotten dog and cat blood or reproductive organs or nervous tissue.-- especially undourgournd and unregulated or medically unmonitored such. How this will affect tourism to and exports from korea is a difficult question indeed. 0000000000000000000000000
(-->>BeTTeR LiVinG Thru BetteR LiVING !!<<----)
GABRIELLI WINERY & VINEYARDS OF MENDOCINO For The BIGGEST BOLDEST & SASSIEST REDS:
Zany & ZaFTiG ZINFANDELS +++ Sassy SYRIAHs +++ SEXY Sangiovese +++ Piquant PINOT NOIRs: http://www.gabrielli-winery.com
http://community.webtv.net/rosaphilia/h2Rosaphilias -----------------------------------------------------------------------
send reply - 07 Mar 2004 15:28 GMT I don't mean to sound harsh but I see no difference in Korea eating dogs/cats, as the U.S. is big on beef. Either way it is meat eating. Who is to say that they are the wrong culture? I have two cats and I love them. But as long as I continue to enjoy a good steak, I feel I have no business telling the Koreans what they can or can't eat.
Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 8:09pm (EST-3)
URGENT - "Write to Embassies & Consulates" Reply to: AnimalProgress@yahoogroups.com
----- Original Message -----
Subject: URGENT - "Write to Embassies & Consulates"
**ALSO URGENT**
PLEASE WRITE YOUR CLOSEST KOREAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE
"TELL THEM TO STOP THE LIES"
Dear friends of Korean animals,
Please also write to your nearest Korean Embassy or Consulate. Sample letters listed below and addresses at the end of this letter.
Thank you, Kyenan Kum IAKA Founder
Remember: Embassy & Consulate Addresses are at the end of this letter.
SAMPLE LETTERS
Sample Letters to Embassies or Consulates:
UK / World Size (A4 - MS Word Doc.)
US Size (8.5 x 11- MS Word Doc.)
Sample letter to Embassy or Consulate:
Dear Embassy/Consulate,
The Korean Government claims their new amendment focuses on strengthening the protection of animals by numerous measures. However, the 1991 Animal Protection Law already bans cruelty to all animals and yet the Korean Government has simply failed to enforce the law.
The new Amendment does strengthen some penalties against offenders and introduces some regulations for the pet industry, but does nothing to improve efforts to stop the illegal dog and cat meat trade - killing millions of dogs and cats each year.
Worse, the definition of pet animals introduced in the Amendment is a clever way of giving legitimacy to the dog and cat meat trade. If the law only recognizes a dog or a cat as a pet animal when their owner's intention is to raise them for companionship, a dog or a cat can also be treated as food or medicine according to their owner's intention.
This is especially a big problem when the Korean Government secretly eliminated dog stew from its list of disgusting f ood in the Food Sanitation Law of 1984 that could not be sold legally.
What the Korean Government should concede and openly acknowledge is that the dog and cat meat trade thrives on lies and greed.
Until the millions of dogs and cats in the markets are included in the definition of pet animals, making no distinction between them, this Amendment causes far more harm than good for Korean animals.
The Korean Government's strategy to defend dog meat as "our food culture" is a blatant revision of history that damages Korea's image abroad.
Dogs were never a dietary tradition in Korea's long history; even during desperate times they were only the vice of older men seeking to enhance their sexual potency.
Cats have only been consumed in tonics since the 1980s. Greed, loss of wild life, and fraudulent health benefits brought them to market.
This amendment tells us that many more animals will continue to be killed for fraudulent health foods like dog-stew-viagra and cat-juice-tonic, whose alleged benefits depend on torture, steroids, and narcotics.
The Korean Government's deceitful diplomatic solution questions your level of commitment to responsible and just animal protection laws, as well for decent consumer fraud and health protection.
The Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS), International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA), and caring Koreans will win their campaign, because the dog and cat meat trade is already illegal and not a part of Korean tradition or culture - most Koreans do not eat them and millions prefer to have them as pets.
They will only lose if secrecy, nationalist lies, and corruption prevail. The truth and law is on their side.
Please support KAPS/IAKA by urging the Government to finally take responsibility for the millions of dogs and cats illegally slaughtered and consumed each year in the markets.
Korea can not take pride in defending the indefensible false-tradition of dog-eating, while ignoring the very courageous and purely homegrown Korean Animal Protection Society that truly defends Korea's real culture and traditions by doing the right thing for their people and their animals.
There is no honor in choosing a LIE as a symbol of Korean culture to defend against international criticism, and all for the benefit of a greedy few butchers and consumers, who have already wiped out much of Korea's wildlife.
Please stand up for Korea by defending worthwhile traditions and values based on truth and justice instead. The only way for the Korean Government to rid itself of this shameful international reputation is to stand behind Korea's own caring people and close down the dog and cat markets on their behalf, not the international communities.
The Korean Government must begin to responsibly educate Koreans about the myths of dog and cat meat-products and promptly enforce adequate laws protecting all dogs and cats from abuse and slaughter, as well as finding these butchers alternative sources of income.
Until then, we will only support amendments that strengthen protections so that no dog and cat is left behind in the markets to be slaughtered and consumed for a dangerous and fraudulent health food market.
Please protect Korea's animals and consumers from this illegal industry. Kindest regards,
Name: Address:
0000000000000000000000000000000000
ADDRESSES:
Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's World Map of Consulates and Embassies http://www.mofat.go.kr/mission/missions_map_en.mof
Korean Embasies and Consulates in US http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/koreaus/consulates/eng_info.cfm
Brief List of Korean Embassies and Consulates Embassy of The Republic of Korea in U.S. 2320 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008, Tel: (202) 939-5600, Fax: (202) 387-0413, http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in London, United Kingdom Ambassador : Lee Tae-sik, 60 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AJ, United Kingdom, Tel. : 44 - (0)20 - 7227-5500, Fax : 44 - (0)20 - 7227-5503, mailto:koreanembinuk@mofat.go.kr
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Darussalam, Brunei - No 17, Simpang 212-28, Kg. Rimba, Jalan Kg. Rimba, Brunei. BE3119. P.O.Box 2169, Bandar Seri Begawan BS8674, Brunei. Tel: 673 - 2426038, 2426039, 2426040. Fax: 673- 2426041. mailto: koreaemb@brunet.bn
General Consulate of The Republic of Korea in Shanghai, China - 4th Floor Shanghai Int'l Trade Center, 2200 Yan An Road (W), Shanghai, China. Tel: (86-21) 6219 - 6417 20. Fax: (86-21) 6219 - 6918.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Jakarta, Indonesia - Jl. Gend. Gatot Subroto 57, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia. Tel: (62-21) 520 - 1915. Fax: (62-21) 525 - 4159.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Dublin, Ireland - 15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: + (353 -1) - 660 - 8800/8053, 668 - 2109. Fax: (+353-1) - 660 - 8716.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Rome, Italy - Via Barnaba Oriani 30, 00197 Rome, Italy. Tel: (39) 06 - 808 - 8769, 8820/1, 8875, 8912. Fax: (39) 06 - 8068 - 7794.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Tokyo, Japan - 1-2-5, Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan ( 106-8577). Tel: (81-3) 3452 - 7611/9. Fax: (81-3) 5232 - 6911.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Wellington, New Zealand - 11th Floor ASB Bank Tower, 2 Hunter Street, Wellington, New Zealand.
OR
PO BOX 11-143, Manners Street, Wellington, New Zealand. Tel: (64-4) 473 - 9073 /4. Fax: (64-4) 472 - 3865. mailto:koreaemb@worldnet.co.nz
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Islamabad, Pakistan - Block 13, St.29, Diplomatic Enclave II, G-5/4, Islamabad, Pakistan. G.P.O. Box 1087. Tel: (92-51) 227 - 9380/2, 227 - 9395/7. Fax: (92-51) 227 - 9391. mailto:koremb1@comsats.net.pk
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Taipei, Taiwan - Rm 1506, No.333, Sec.1, Kee-Lung Rd., Taipei, Taiwan. Tel: (886-2) 2758 - 8320/5. Fax: (886-2) 2757 - 7006.
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Bangkok, Thailand - 23 Thiam-Ruammit Road, Ratchadapisek, Huay Kwang, Bangkok 10320. Tel: 2477537 - 41. Fax: 2477535. mailto:korembas@kormail.net
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Ankara, Turkey - Alacam Sokak No.5, Cinnah Caddesi, Cankaya, Ankara 06690, Turkey. Tel: +90 - 312 - 468 - 4821/22/23, 467 - 7449, 427 - 1743. Fax: +90 - 312 - 468 - 2279. mailto:turkey@mofat.go.kr
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Hanoi, Vietnam - 4 th Fl., Dae Ha Business Center, Kim Ma Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tel: (84-4) 831 - 5111/6. Fax: (84-4) 831 - 5117. mailto: korembviet@mofat.go.kr
You can also write personal letters urging the Korean Government to:
Introduce new clearly-enforceable laws Ban slaughter, abuse, and consumption of ALL DOGS & CATS once and for all Define ALL DOGS & CATS as "PET ANIMALS"
Enforce existing laws that prohibit the abuse and consumption of dogs and cats. Please send Korean Government protest letters to:
President Roh, Moo-Hyun Blue House 1 Sejong-Ro, Jongno-gu Seoul South Korea, 110-050 malto:webmaster@president.go.kr
mailto:webmaster@korea.net
Minister Huh Sang-Man The Ministry of Agriculture 1 Jungang-dong, Gwacheon Gyeonggi Prov. South Korea, 427-760 -or- mailto:webmaster@maf.go.kr
Rita Fazio,
Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS) International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA) http://www.koreananimals.org/index.htm
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kilikini - 09 Mar 2004 20:43 GMT > I don't mean to sound harsh but I see no difference in Korea eating > dogs/cats, as the U.S. is big on beef. Either way it is meat eating. Who > is to say that they are the wrong culture? I have two cats and I love them. > But as long as I continue to enjoy a good steak, I feel I have no business > telling the Koreans what they can or can't eat. Unless they live in your neighborhood and are well known for "taking" in strays. kilikini
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