Fw: Korea update

November 8, 2000

Dear Animal Friends,

First of all, please note my e-mail address change: it is now

iaka . The old one was ifkaps.

I have returned from my trip to Korea and am have been trying to catch up

with things. I've especially been busy with trying to plan a demonstration

in

Norway for when the Korean President receives the Nobel Peace Prize, on

December 10. It seems like everything will go well for a demonstration in

Oslo. I have gotten in touch with one of our Norwegian members, Maggie

Hansen. She's a very good animal activist who lives in Bergen, Norway,

which is pretty far from Oslo, but she has a lot of contacts in the capital.

She will be a great help--she's already started contacting media people to

expose the Korean animal

situation, and she'll be doing the bulk of organizing for the demonstration.

I have decided to go to Norway to attend the demo. I'll be in Bergen for a

few days with Maggie preparing for the demo, and then we're going to fly to

Oslo with her dog (which looks like a Korean yellow mixed-breed dog), and

we'll get a hotel there and stay in Oslo for a few days.

As soon as I know the exact time for the demonstration on December 10th,

I'll send out another e-mail.

Another piece of good news is I had an interview with Channel 7

Fox TV in Miami. Fortunately I did not have to go to Miami--I went instead

to Fox

TV in Oakland and had a satellite interview with Patrick Fraser. This will

air in a few weeks. I am still waiting for a broadcast by UNIVISION of an

interview I did with them a few weeks ago.

Steve Hindi of SHARK is ready with his " Tiger Fleet " slam-truck, and he is

planning to use it to help with the Korean issue. One of the places he'll

be hitting is the Korean consulate when he goes to Los Angeles.

The ITN documentary looks like it will be excellent. My trip to Korea went

very well. ITN rescued Hope, a dog from the dog market, and everybody he

meets is already falling in love with him, including the English family

that's going to adopt him. He's going to be in quarantine for six months,

and in the meantime ITN will start editing; after he gets out of quarantine

in April, the documentary will be completed and will air in May in England

and some channels in America.

I think the documentary will be sensational. It was difficult to get some

undercover shots because we went out of the season and it was often raining,

but my undercover Korean contact did get some footage inside the

slaughterhouses.

One of the interesting things that happened while I was there was when I was

supposed to have my interview, in front of a dog butcher's shop. I was

looking at a cage packed with dogs, and they all looked really wet and

miserable. I noticed one dog who was in a huge amount of pain but couldn't

bark--probably his vocal cords were removed when he was young. When I

looked closer to see what was wrong, I noticed that his tail had been busted

open by the wires of the cage and was bleeding. I became hysterical and

forgot about the interview. The dog butcher came outside, and the

cameraman, Malcolm, got into a huge argument with him. Somehow all of this

turned out really well--it really exposed a lot of the horror and the

callousness of the dog treatment. But I was very sad that I was not able to

save that dog.

Kyenan

Kyenan Kum

www.koreananimals.org

E-mail: iaka

International Aid for Korean Animals

Korean Animal Protection Society

P.O. Box 20600

Oakland, CA 94620-0600

Tel.: (510) 271-6795

Fax: (510) 451-0643

PLEASE NOTE:my e-mail address has changed!

November 21, 2000

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" ifkaps " <ifkaps

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Tuesday, 21 November, 2000 08:38

Korea update

Dear Animal Friends,

I just wanted to send a short update of what IAKA has been up to lately.

Last week, on October 15-16, Fox Channel 7 in Miami, FL broadcasted a news

piece on Korean cats and dogs, which I did an interview for a few weeks back

over satellite. The response we have had the past few days over e-mail has

been pretty tremendous. It is really encouraging seeing how much people

want to help when they hear about the plight of Korean companion animals.

I am busy now preparing for a demonstration in Oslo, Norway, on December

10th. The Korean president is going to be there to receive the Nobel Peace

Prize, so we're going there to bring attention to the unenforced laws and

dog and cat meat black markets still existing in Korea. It seems that the

Norwegian media is not going to help expose the Korean dog issue. So if

anyone in Norway, Sweden, or anywhere else would like to attend or help by

spreading news of the demonstration and Korean dog and cat issue, the help

would be very much appreciated. You can contact me here if you want to

help.

We haven't yet found out the exact time of the ceremony, but I'll let you

all know once we do.

Thanks,

Kyenan

Kyenan Kum

www.koreananimals.org

E-mail: ifkaps

International Aid for Korean Animals

Korean Animal Protection Society

P.O. Box 20600

Oakland, CA 94620-0600

Tel.: (510) 271-6795

Fax: (510) 451-0643

November 21, 2000

Good luck kenyan I'll be with you in spirit.

Lin Ishikawa

When the ways of friends converge the whole world looks like home for an

hour.