Every Year South Koreans eat more than 1 million dogs .

Slaughtering dogs and eating their meat may horrify Americans, it's a longstanding custom in South Korea and other Asian nations. Most South Koreans don't eat dog meat, though a minority do. Young South Koreans are abandoning the tradition, even as animal rights groups campaign to end this culture .
 South Koreans, however, historically regarded dogs as edible farm animals, not loving indoor companions. Dogs were more plentiful than cattle, which were scarce and valued for farm labor such as pulling carts and plowing fields .

That lingering view affects how South Koreans consider dogs today, as the country grapples with its practice of raising dogs for meat and dog meat consumption itself.
About 2.5 million dogs are raised in South Korean dog farms each year. About 1 million are killed and eaten. The rest are used for breeding with many dogs dying because of the farms' high mortality rate, according to Humane Society International, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates for animal  protection worldwide . source : USA today .