``President Yun Seok-Yeol promises''...Legislative and Judiciary Committee passes a law banning the consumption of dogs, imposing a maximum of 3 years in prison for slaughtering meat for human consumption = South Korea

In South Korea, a bill was passed by the National Assembly's Legislative and Judiciary Committee on the 8th, banning the breeding, breeding, and slaughtering of dogs for meat.
The Legislative and Judiciary Committee held a plenary session on the same day that said,
Handled the enactment of a special law regarding the termination of management, distribution, etc. The proposed enactment would prohibit the act of breeding, breeding, and slaughtering dogs for the purpose of eating them, and the act of distributing and selling dogs and food prepared and processed using dogs as raw materials.
The main point is what is prohibited. Slaughtering a dog for meat is punishable by up to 3 years in prison or a fine of up to 30 million won (approximately 3.28 million yen); breeding, breeding, or distributing a dog is punishable by up to 2 years in prison.
or a fine of up to 20 million won (approximately 2.19 million yen). In addition, dog farm owners, dog meat processors/distributors, restaurant owners, etc. are required to monitor their facilities and business activities by local government officials.
The law also includes provisions for the national and local governments to support businesses that have made the declaration to close down or change their businesses. However, the prohibition of breeding, meat processing, distribution, etc. and the penalty provisions for violations are not disclosed in the bill.
The law will come into effect three years after it is enacted. This is to provide a grace period for punishment. The bill is expected to be processed at the plenary session on the 9th.
Prior to this, the ruling and opposition parties had virtually established the handling of the law banning the consumption of dogs as party policy.
, has been promoted. Last November, the People's Power (ruling party) and the government made official the promotion of the enactment of a special law through party-political consultations, and the Democratic Party (opposition party) also adopted the bill as a party theory at a general meeting of members in the same month.
. President Yoon Seo-gyul and his wife Kim Kun-hee also attended a meeting of the Amste LUDAAM Animal Protection Foundation during their state visit to the Netherlands in December last year, saying, ``The ban on eating dogs is the president's decision.''
"I promise," he urged the bill to be processed.