{"id":61281,"date":"2024-01-19T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/19\/south-korea-dog-meat-ban"},"modified":"2024-01-19T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T01:00:15","slug":"how-south-korea-fell-in-love-with-dogs-and-banned-their-slaughter-for-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61281","title":{"rendered":"How South Korea fell in love with dogs and banned their slaughter for meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National assembly votes to end trade in dog meat, thanks to its canine-loving leaders<\/p>\n<p>Like most young South Koreans, Annie Ko rarely ate dog meat, but her annual visits to a restaurant serving the dish did little to trouble her conscience. And she was only vaguely aware of the international criticism that led to last week\u2019s vote to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/09\/south-korea-votes-to-ban-production-and-sale-of-dog-meat\">ban the breeding, slaughter and sale of dog meat<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>It was when she volunteered as an interpreter for Humane Society International that her views on eating dog meat \u2013 a tradition some claim goes back centuries \u2013 changed dramatically.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/19\/south-korea-dog-meat-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National assembly votes to end trade in dog meat, thanks to its canine-loving leadersLike most young South Koreans, Annie Ko rarely ate dog meat, but her annual visits to a restaurant serving the dish did little to trouble her conscience. And she was o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[586,265,41,868,78,284,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-dogs","category-life-and-style","category-pets","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61282,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61281\/revisions\/61282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}