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  • South Korea dog meat farmers protest outside the presidential office in Seoul against plans to ban their trade. Banner reads "The right to eat comes before anything else! Guarantee fundamental rights, the right to survival, and freedom to choose occupation" A word play on "fundamental rights" translates as "dog fundamental rights," inadvertently highlighting the possibility that dogs have rights too.

    Save dogs, eat pigs?

    William Gildea
    Raphael Rashid
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    South Korea has banned dog meat, but is pig meat any different?
  • Grace Lee

    Why Aren’t My Fellow Americans Doing More Recycling?

    Grace Lee
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    Grace Lee has just spent a month in Seoul, South Korea working as an intern for the Resource Recirculation Management Division under the Climate Change and Environment Bureau of Seoul City Hall. Here’s what she has to say to her fellow US citizens about their domestic waste…
  • By greening up its act, Seoul is setting an example to the rest of South Korea

    Seoul: on course to be one of the world's greenest cities?

    Anna Sheldrick
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    Seoul, host of this year's G20, is well on the way to achieving its goal of becoming one of the world's most eco-friendly cities. But, as Anna Sheldrick reports, there may be room for improvement elsewhere in South Korea
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    Seychelles hotel cancelled

    Xan Rice
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    A planned hotel in the Seychelles has been cancelled thanks to the protests of locals concerned about their food supply
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    South Korea hot for solar energy

    The town of Shinan in South Korea is planning to host the world’s largest solar power plant, following government plans to generate 10 per cent of the country’s energy from renewable sources by 2020.
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