Jinyoung

In the second week of February, 2013, Jinyeong, a white jindo dog, was seen being dragged behind a motorcycle. A group of youngsters had been chasing the driver of the motorcycle for some time. When I managed to catch up with the motorbike, it had been dragging the the dog for 20-30 minutes. The dog was terrified, completely drained for trying to keep up with the bike pulling her, and she was bleeding from her belly and legs.

At this point, a number of people had gathered around the dog, chastizing the driver for being so negligent. We took the dog away from the driver and brought it to a vet where her wounds were tended to. Afterwards, I visited the police office to see how such cruelty could be handled in a legal sense. (Unfortunately, perhaps predictably, legal justice has failed the dog. Let's just say that Jinyoung very nearly ended up back with the motorcycle driver.)

Since that day, Jinyoung has been staying at the Donghae shelter. While her physical wounds have healed, she has still not been able to receive the kind of attention and love she needs to come out of her shell, so to speak. She gets along with the large group of smaller dogs at the shelter, but when approached by humans, she is extremely timid. There she waits for someone to bring her into their family, to show her the love she has yet to ever receive.