Busan police have begun a full-fledged investigation on the recently revealed video clip of a man dressed like a Buddhist monk beating a dog to death with a blunt weapon.

The clip, which sparked outrage once it was posted on the Internet, shows a man, who appears to be in his 60s, climbing over a fence to hit and kick a dog tied up in a yard on private property. In the footage, the man climbs out only to return five minutes later, this time with a blunt weapon with which he delivers two blows to the dog’s head.

The dog was discovered the next morning with a ruptured skull and died despite being taken to a clinic.

The dog’s owner, surnamed Song, 75, said that at the time of the incident back in December he called the police, only to be told that this was a vandalism case. He did not press charges.

The video clip was sent to animal rights groups by neighbors who sympathized with Song’s grief over his lost companion.

The animal rights group Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth reported the case to Busan Busanjin Police Station as a violation of the animal protection act.


Sim Guk-by
Intern Reporter

(simgukby@heraldcorp.com)