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[Rteacher]

Anyway, my thread promoting the event Friday night at Rocky Mountain Tavern from which all proceeds, including cover charge (12,000 won) and raffle sales for a new IPod, will go to help dogs at the closing animal shelter in Daejeon has disappeared from the Off-Topic forum.

Probably mods are cleaning up some "dirty laundry" aired by a couple posters, and hopefully it will be restored soon.

There was one excellent post on there by "timvas" who has devoted himself to helping the plight of animals in Korea along with other volunteers, including "Shannonation".

Here's the flier again (print it out and get 2000 won off admission to the benefit acts, which will be on the second floor of RMT - in Itaewon)



http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=113528&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=101200

There's more information on their website:http://www.animalrescuekorea.org/forums/showthread.php?t=371
(It can be read easier if Page is zoomed in to 75%)

[Rteacher]

Here's a clearer view of how to get there (and a couple maps for newcomers to Korea)

Directions: You can take subway line #6 to Itaewon. Take exit 3 and walk about 5 minutes. Rocky Mountain Tavern is located on the 2nd floor, opposite the International Clinic and Buy The Way. Look for the totem poles outside

The Rocky Mountain Tavern is way to the right on this map, near Itaewon Hotel and Thai Orchid (now Thai Gardens):


Here's a simple map of the center of Seoul - Itaewon is near the lower-right corner, and the RMT is at the opposite end of the strip from McDonalds - on the other side of the street (on the far right of the map):

[mistermasan]

hey, a reason to go to seoul and put faces to names? sounds great. sadly, there are parts of korea not accessible by the seoul transit system. kinda hard to swing up there on a friday.

let us know if saturdays are ever feasible.

best wishes.

[Rteacher]

I live over two hours away myself. Most every town has a decent bus service to Seoul. And the event doesn't get going until till 9pm.

Of course, it might require finding a motel room if you can't crash at a friend's place.

Volunteers for the shelter living in Daejeon are taking the KTX train, I think and will stay with a friend.

I'm going to the dang thing, and I don't even drink ...

Let's all give it the old college try (even if some of our degrees are questionable ... )

Another poster started a thread in "Off-Topic":
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=114214

[timvas]

We have a really good response so far, judging by the feedback we should have somewhere between 50 and 100 people coming along.

In case anyone missed it I will buy a beer for any Dave's members there on the night - just introduce yourself to the 6 foot Australian battler with short hair and dark skin, that will be me (there shouldn't be more than 10 people there fitting that description...

We will be on the top (second) floor of the RMT - Seoul City Improv start at 9pm, The Mechanical Seals and The 40 Days after that. Raffle is 1,000 won per ticket to win an iPod Nano, Wine, Scotch and other prizes.

For anyone who isn't familiar with the Daejeon shelter, it is a privately run shelter on a farm in Daejeon - the lady who runs it (Mrs Jung) is basically a kind soul who can't say no to homeless dogs so she has had people dumping their unwanted dogs at her farm for years. Now the person she rents the farm from wants her to move out and the council have given her until the end of this month to get rid of the dogs. We managed to secure an extension last year until the end of Feb & we have requested another extension but I have no idea whether this will be granted or not - I imagine it depends upon how quickly the council and the owner of the property want Mrs Jung and the dogs off the property (ie whether the number of dogs is reducing quickly enough for their liking). There were 210 dogs there in mid 2007, as of last Saturday there are 118, so (allowing for a few puppies born in the interim) we have rehomed over 100 dogs in 8 months. This is good progress, but we are not even half-way there and we are running out of time.

Below are a couple of videos which will give you an idea of what we are dealing with, the first was taken in June last year and the second was taken two weeks ago (the reduction in the number of dogs is noticeable, although there is obviously still a long way to go)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqX9Jc5aRBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GNTfHdXMI&feature=related

If the extension is granted we will need financial support to assist our ongoing expenditure re feeding the dogs (between myself and the Macquarie Bank Group Foundation we are spending 600-700,000 won per month on dog food alone) in addition to their veterinary care (regular & emergency/one-off). If we do not receive an extension then we will probably need to pay other welfare groups to take some of the dogs in an attempt to reduce the number who will otherwise be sent to the council shelters (which now only have a 10 day wait before unclaimed animals are put to sleep).

Also, if anyone is interested in visiting the shelter they are welcome to join our regular Saturday visits - I take volunteers, adopters and fosterers down to Daejeon from Seoul on the KTX every Saturday. Even if you can't adopt or foster a dog yourself the dogs really appreciate people coming to take them for walks, they get very little exercise as Mrs Jung is flat-out trying to look after them all - they get very little one-on-one attention unless it is from volunteers. In addition, some of the dogs (like the ones below) are too shy/scared to go for walks so we just carry them around each week until ultimately they are comfortable enough with people to possibly be adopted.

So please do come along and join us in a few drinks for a good cause.