Bahk Eun-ji has been with The Korea Times since 2012, building a career across multiple desks. She began at the Business Desk, where she conducted in-depth interviews with key figures in Korea's corporate world. Later, she moved to the Politics & City Desk, focusing on education policy and social affairs. She later served as team leader of the digital content team, leading curation efforts on the newspaper’s homepage and reshaping print stories for social media audiences to enhance digital reach. Now back on the Politics Desk, she covers the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Defense, with a renewed focus on political developments.
Court upholds man's jail term for slaughter, eating of two Jindo dogs
Jindo dogs are shown at a festival on Jin Island, South Jeolla Province, in this Oct. 30, 2010 photo. Korea Times file.
By Bahk Eun-ji
By Bahk Eun-ji
An appellate court has upheld an earlier ruling that gave a prison term to a man for having two Jindo dogs slaughtered so he could then eat them, just one hour after he bought them from a breeder. The appellate division of the Incheon District Court said Friday that it upheld the sentence imposed on the 75-year-old for fraud as well as instigating an act that violated the Animal Protection Law.
The court said the man bought two indigenous Jindo breed dogs ― a three-year-old mother and her one-year-old pup ― May 17 last year in Incheon, after lying to the former owner that he would raise them himself.
One hour later, however, he asked the owner of a slaughterhouse to kill them so that he and his friend could eat meat off them. He paid 120,000 won for the slaughtering of the dogs.
The slaughterhouse owner and the friend were each sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for one year, for violating the Animal Protection Law.
The former owner of the dogs posted a petition on the Cheong Wa Dae website after hearing about how the men had eaten the dogs, urging that they be strictly punished.
“I gave the dogs to him on the condition that he would return them to me if he couldn't raise them, but they went to a place where I could never see them again,” the dog owner wrote.
More than 60,000 people had signed the petition at the time of the court ruling.