I like dogs and they are my friends. Frankly I don't like to eat dog meat because it is not delicious. But I agree that people should be able to eat dog meat. If we like cows and pigs, we shouldn't eat beef and pork. Dogs are animals and pigs are animals.
        I think we have a culture in which we eat dog meat, and other people of the world have a different culture in which they eat other meat. For example to eat steak is prohibited in India. If Indians protested to Americans because they eat steak, should Americans not eat it because cows are godlike animals in India? But Americans eat steak in America, and so Koreans eat dog meat in Korea. This is not barbaric but is just a difference in culture.
        When the French actress Brigitte Bardot criticized Korea in 1994, she wrote a letter of protest about eating dogs to Korea's President Kim Young Sam. Animal lovers like her think that dogs are friends and members of the family. Dogs are only pets to many people in western countries. But Koreans have a different concept about dogs. In Korea, people discriminate between dogs as pets and dogs as food. Many people feed pets in their houses. They are never eaten. But in other cases, some dogs are not pets. These dogs are eaten as food. But animal lovers don't understand that fact. They understand that we eat all dogs. The French eat snails, pigeons, horses, etc, but Koreans don't criticize them. The people of each country have to understand different cultures.