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🇰🇷 South Korea

1 in 178 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

2.77 million 📎 www.dailyvet.co.kr 2024 MAFRA welfare survey estimate 2.77M; KB Research 2.17M (2024) — estimates differ

street

0.6 million 🎲 no national count; Seoul ~100k (2023, Gangdong-gu page) ≈ 18% of the population → ~0.55M nationally; 0.6M is a game value

Share of the world’s cats

0.6% 🎲

Lifespan in the data

11.1 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

69% / 26% 📎 www.dailyvet.co.kr 2025 owned 68.9% (2025 survey) · street 26% = Seoul end-2017 (fnnews 2018), no national figure

Kept indoors

85% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a cat from an ordinary home41%
• a cat from a poor household16%
• a cat from a wealthy home15%
• a street cat12%
• a show-cattery cat6.6%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter4.6%
• a backyard-bred kitten3.3%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat1.1%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: no strong belief

Laws and policies

• Local-government TNR — Districts hire groups to trap, neuter, ear-tip (~1 cm, left) and return street cats · 128,514 cats in 2025. 📎 www.dailyvet.co.kr 📎 news.seoul.go.kr

Help real cats in South Korea

• KARA — Rescue, campus cat care, animal-law campaigns www.ekara.org
• Korea Animal Welfare Association — Rescue, adoption and welfare campaigns www.animals.or.kr
• Nabiya Saranghae — Cat rescue and rehoming group www.nabiya.org
• Korean Cat Protection Association — Street-cat care and TNR information www.catcare.or.kr
• APMS animal.go.kr — Gov portal: shelter animals, adoption, lost pets www.animal.go.kr
• Seoul TNR — Districts trap, neuter, ear-tip and return news.seoul.go.kr

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