Koreans talk up dog meat

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Koreans talk up dog meat

Agence France-Presse

From correspondents in Seoul

July 19, 2007

 

NORTH Korea's state media is talking up the virtues of dog meat, saying the

controversial cuisine is a prized delicacy for coping with the summer heat.

 

Dog soup, called dangogi-jang or boshintang (health soup), is " the best cuisine "

served over the summer season, the official Korean Central News Agency said,

yesterday touting its nutritional properties.

 

Dangogi, literally meaning sweet meat, is an euphemism for dog meat that was

coined by North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung in the early 1980s.

 

Dangogi-jang means dog meat soup.

 

" These days workers sweating to taste boshintang can be witnessed in any Dangogi

houses and traditional restaurants in the capital of Pyongyang, " the agency

said.

 

While dog meat restaurants are assuming a lower profile in South Korea, the

reverse is true in the impoverished North.

 

Pyongyang has many dangogi-jang restaurants but defectors say dog meat has

become a luxury elsewhere after chronic food shortages worsened in the

mid-1990s.

 

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