Category Animal rights

A big beagly day

A friendly beagle jumps on a fence to greet the photographer at the Beagle Rescue Network shelter in central Korea in July 2019, as beagles and other dogs wag their tails in the background.

It was a big beagly day at the Beagle Rescue Network shelter in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, when I visited in July 2019. The group’s head volunteer, Jeong Buyun, led me to a magical place full of wagging tails, inquisitive…

Promoting veganism in Seoul

Masked animal activists show graphic footage on a busy street in Seoul.

The first time I observed a Cube of Truth event in Myeong-dong, the busy shopping area in downtown Seoul, I’d followed the group’s activities on social media for some time. The activists were representing Anonymous for the Voiceless, and on…

A talk with a Korean animal activist

Heeji in 2019 in a café, wearing an animal liberation T-shirt

Looking back on my 2019 conversation with Heeji Yi, maybe I was too optimistic. She was in her late 20s at the time and we met up at a café in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, just outside Seoul, to talk about…