Daejeon “the New Hub City for Korea states on its website that it “has a high standard of living for foreigners”. Daejeon, with the slogan ‘Vibrant Daejeon Happy People’ boasts that the City Government “rolled its sleeves and worked very hard to … revitalize its local economy through promotion of tourism”. But ‘vibrant’, ‘happy’ and ‘high standard of living’ are not words anyone can use to describe the way in which the dog-meat trade inhumanely raises and brutally slaughters its millions of animals each year. Daejeon is one of the largest dog meat consumption areas in South Korea; it has countless dog slaughterhouses, markets and restaurants where these pitiful dogs are subjected to the final brutality of being electrocuted, hanged, or beaten - then thrown into boiling water – sometimes while still alive. In many places these dogs (some stolen or abandoned pets) are killed in full view of other terrified, caged dogs. And this takes place in public and in broad daylight. So, what foreign resident or tourist could feel really comfortable being in a city whose ‘happy people’ do nothing to stop this aberrant meat trade? A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Daejeon’s dog meat demand. Shown below are two search results on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – the first one was for so-called “Health Food Centers” which commonly sell dog elixirs and cat elixirs (also known as dog soju and cat soju); and the second one was for “dog meat restaurants”. The searches resulted in: 462 Health Food Centers; and 115 restaurants in and around the city of Daejeon alone. Even if half of these ‘Health’ Food Centers and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, just imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be present in and around Daejeon in order to supply all of these outlets. The Mayor of Daejeon states that he feels “it is an honor and profound responsibility to serve the people of Daejeon”. But the best way for the Mayor to live up to this claim, and to really prove a Vibrant Daejeon with Happy People would be for him to end the dog and cat meat trades in his city. Click to take action: http://koreandogs.org/sister-city-campaign-daejeon-south-korea-seattle-washington/ Petition: https://www.change.org/p/mayor-edward-b-murray-of-seattle-tell-sister-city-daejeon-korea-that-we-re-opposed-to-torture-consumption-of-dogs-cats Please join us to speak out against the South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty. Join our Thunderclap campaigns to say “Boycott PyeongChang 2018 Olympics in South Korea”! http://koreandogs.org/thunderclap-boycott-pc2018/ Please sign and share 2 very important petitions to give much needed international support to the Korean government officials who are trying to fight the dog meat industry in Korea! We need at least 20K signatures. All thanks to Mayor Kim! Bucheon City working towards becoming the "First Dog Meat Free City in Korea". https://www.change.org/p/mayor-kim-man-soo-of-bucheon-all-thanks-to-mayor-kim-bucheon-city-working-towards-becoming-first-dog-meat-free-city We thank you, Chairman Pyo Chang-Won for standing up for rights of Korean animals! https://www.change.org/p/we-thank-you-chairman-pyo-chang-won-for-standing-up-for-rights-of-korean-animals Thank you! Compassion Through Action! Homepage: http://koreandogs.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/koreandogs Twitter: https://twitter.com/Koreandogs Petitions: http://koreandogs.org/petitions/ Calls for Action: http://koreandogs.org/what-you-can-do/call-for-action/ Call the South Korean Embassy and Consulate General Offices in your country: http://koreandogs.org/call-south-korean-embassy