Dog Meat: Not Your K-Food Poster Child

Dog meat is a part of Korean cuisine and as well-known internationally as kimchi, but unlike kimchi, it’s not not on any K-food poster. Understandably so. It’s an ugly pus in South Korea’s global branding machine, and it resurfaces whenever there’s a huge international event hosted by the country — the coming winter Olympics in February, for example. There are online petitions calling for the boycott of the Pyeongchang Olympics (as there were during the 2002 World Cup, notably by French actress