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Inside Korea's dog meat markets

WSPA's Trevor Wheeler gives a first-hand account of a visit to Moran market in South Korea.

When we arrived at the market at around 6am we were the only western faces there. We were watched very carefully for the duration of our visit. I soon appreciated that unlike the other locations we had visited, this was a specialised dog market. Other markets had several dog meat stalls within the vast area of general items on sale, but this one was different.

All around Moran market I saw hundreds of live dogs, heaped into cages awaiting their fate. As the delivery trucks arrived, I could see dogs crammed so heavily into cages that their limbs were entwined with each other. Some of the cages containing cats were so full that their legs were forced through tiny holes in the mesh cages, causing cuts and injuries.

I watched in horror as one trader unloaded puppies from a delivery cage. She grabbed each one by its hind leg and threw them into a larger pen as if they were already dead.

Inside the market, makeshift slaughterhouses had been established on each side of the main trading hall. Time-after-time, I saw dogs being dragged off on ropes to their death. I could hear them howl from fear and pain as they were slaughtered.

A number of temporary restaurants were set up in the centre of the market. These sold various dog meat dishes, served up while live animals were barking and howling in the background.

I estimated that around 2000 dogs were sold at the market during our short visit. We saw rows and rows of dog carcasses laid out on stalls, their coats having been blow-torched from their bodies and browned and singed. These were mainly being sold to wholesale traders. Other stalls offered small joints of dog meat, half carcasses, heads, paws, and even skins, which had been blow-torched from the body with the paws still attached.

Some of the recently butchered dogs were displayed on their backs with their abdomens split, and having been cleaned, their internal organs had been replaced within the body for inspection by perspective buyers.

Moran market was described to me as the worst market in Korea for animals and for the dogs in particular. I found it difficult to argue with this. The howls that I could hear as the dogs were killed has remained a haunting memory ever since.