She walked into a Korean dog meat farm in 2015. Since then, she’s brought 3,700 dogs home.
The Shelter Series continues with Gina, founder of Korean K9 Rescue. While visiting family in South Korea, Gina found a “shelter” that was just cages in an open field, and a few hundred feet down the road, a dog meat farm holding 200 dogs. She brought a few dogs back to New York. Today her rescue runs a 20,000-square-foot rehabilitation center outside Seoul and has placed more than 3,700 dogs in the tri-state area. Andrew and co-host Ana talk with Gina about Jindos, the “pit bulls of Korea,” why she requires every adopter to work with a dog trainer, and how play transformed her center. In this episode: Why Jindos fill Korea’s shelters, and what’s behavior versus breed What it really costs to bring one dog 7,000 miles The mandatory-trainer rule, and the Jindo Journey Fund that helps adopters pay for it How play changed everything at the rescue center Mongoon: the shut-down dog who was “never going to see the light of day” Remy: why the dog everyone thought was broken was actually overmedicated The constraint of time: why two-week board and trains fail dogs Korea’s upcoming ban on the dog meat trade Adoption since COVID, vet costs, and keeping dogs in homes Starting positive, then building on it: Gina’s approach to training rescue dogs
