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Largest dog slaughterhouse shut in bid to stop custom of eating dog meat

The Taepyeong-dong complex housed at least six dog slaughterhouses that could hold several hundred animals at a time. [THE HUMANE SOCIETY/AFP / Handout]

South Korean officials on Thursday began to dismantle the country's largest canine slaughterhouse complex, as animal rights activists push to end the custom of eating dog meat.

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