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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…