Jin-hui, a cream-coloured Pomeranian, was buried alive and left for dead in 2018 in the South Korean port city of Busan.
No charges were filed against its owner at the time, but animal abusers and those who abandon pets will soon face harsher punishment as South Korea plans to amend its civil code to grant animals legal status, Choung Jae-min, the justice ministry's director-general of legal counsel, told Reuters in an interview.
South Korea's animal protection law states that anyone who abuses or is cruel to animals may be sentenced to a maximum of three years in prison or fined 30 million won , but the standards to decide penalties have been low as the animals are treated as objects under the current legal system, Choung said.
"The revision will only call for means to regulate the industry by making it difficult to adopt pets, which will impact greatly not only the industry, but the society as a whole," said the association's director general, Kim Kyoung-seo. Animal rights groups welcomed the justice ministry's plan, while calling for stricter penalties for those who abandon or torture animals, as well as a ban on dog meat.
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