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[TJ]

Superfly, thanks for the photo of the dogs in cages.

I lived in South Korea for 4 years but never had my camera with me when I saw Korean (meat) dogs.

Since returning to Aus I have told my friends here about Korean dogs but I'm sure they didn't really understand the situation.

Now I can show friends in Australia how some, but not all, Koreans treat dogs.

[pegpig]

[sheba]

[livinginkorea]

Going back to the orginal topic....

When I came here first I was brought out a lot by my co-teachers and the bosses. This happened for a month and then the conversation started to dry up and they started to speak more and more Korean and less English so I took the hint and started declining their "let's go drinking" offer. That was my first job.

With my second job I was only asked out once by the boss when they had a big New Years party last January. That was all. Looks to me that the going for the drink depends greatly on the school and the location. What I mean by that is the school in the country or city? In my experience I was asked out a lot by the country people (my first job) and only once in the city (my second job). Well the Korean country people seemed to be closer as they grew up together.

To be honest my students have asked me out about 5 times as much as both schools have asked me. But sometimes you have to say no. I had an excuse that I was teaching in the morning 3 times a week so that came out sometimes!! If I went all the time then I would get bored

[livinginkorea]

As for the dogmeat..

I was tricked by one of my friends (I thought that he was) into having dogmeat for dinner. I told him beforehand that I didn't want dogmeat or live squid for dinner. That bastard. I was shocked and furious and I never talked to him again. He was super Christian as well.

Some Koreans think that it's funny to trick the foreigner.

Haha very funny, my sides are splitting!!! Very funny trick you have played on me!!!

It's all because we aren't real people to them.

[Corporal]

[Homer]

[sheba]

I dont think it is neccessarily cutural... Every Korean dog owner I have met refuses to eat dog meat. I met a Korean back home who used to eat it, but now now that he owns a dog he said he would never touch the stuff again. He was the one that told me about beating dogs to death.

I agree, I do not think it is wrong to eat dog meat, its just something I wouldnot do. I was merely pointing out my opinion of the difference between eating dog and beef (or chicken etc).

Did the OP pass judgement? I didnt pick up on that (or were you referring to me?). Anyway, I would feel uncomfortable around a group of people eating dog meat simly because I would have visuals of my own pets... wierd?? I dont blame them for passing up the offer to go out, although it may be wise to let them know why so that next time they could all go somewhere else as a group.

[JongnoGuru]

On my most recent trip to the West I was asked by strangers on six separate occasions, upon hearing that I had just arrived from South Korea, whether I've eaten dogmeat. (By the third time, I was saying, "Okay, you're the third person to ask me that", "You're the fourth person...", "You're the fifth...", etc.) The whole spectrum -- shopkeepers, students, cab drivers, elderly guests in hotel bars, men and women. Sometimes it was intended as a joke, sometimes deadly serious. But it was nearly always the very first thing they asked me.

[sheba]

I asked a lot of Koreans on my first trip here... I was surprised to find that most of them answered a shocked "NO!". I haven't met a lot of people who have said yes, although I have stopped asking!

[PolyChronic Time Girl]

When I first came to Korea, I honestly ate dog soup one time. It was the novelty of a new country and I wanted to do something different and have something "cool" to write about back home. Now, I honestly wish I didn't try it. First, Bosintang is disgusting, well, not disgusting but horribly bland and tasteless. I won't eat it again, first, because it doesn't taste good. Second, after I had my first "dog" I moved into a house that had a family downstairst that raised dogs specifically for the cuisine. This poor dog was just chained up, looked dirty and desolute. I feel real guilty that I ate dog and will never do it again. I had a foreign coworker that loved dog and ate it once a week. Once was too much for me.
Most Koreans I talk to seem shocked a little horrified that I tried dog....so obviously it is not a common cuisine with them also.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I've eaten dog. I won't again, simply because I don't think it tastes very good.

And pigs are carnivores. Haven't you seen Hannibal?



Sparkles*_*

[captain kirk]

I think there's a good case for not eating meat period. Cholesterol from animal fat, then the moral issue. If you think about it, look at the statistics for heart disease in big meat eating countries when folks get to be in their fifties.

Like the oil industry, the meat industry is a powerful lobby, and the medical industry which performs coronary bypasses.

[manlyboy]

[R. S. Refugee]