70 dogs saved from ‘utter hell’ at one of South Korea’s last canine meat farms

For Sangkyung Lee, nothing beats opening the rusted, filthy cages at dog meat farms and watching the nervous canines sniff his hand.

And in recent months, he’s been doing it a lot.

A ban on breeding, slaughtering and selling dogs for human consumption will come into effect in South Korea next February.

Sangkyung, the campaign manager at Humane World for Animals Korea, took part in the animal welfare organisation’s final large-scale dog meat farm rescue mission in September.

‘It was an amazing feeling to get these dogs out of their filthy cages, never to be confined ever again,’ he tells Metro.

‘At the same time, it’s heartbreaking to know that these dogs ...