I find articles like this a bit misleading, though I'm not sure it is intentional. It doesn't give much sense of how frequently such meat was/is consumed beyond one sentence indicating it has been in decline.
I've lived in and visited a fair number of East Asian countries over the last two decades. Some consume dog, but few do it often. I never once encountered it in years in Taiwan.
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Taiwan bans slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39573426
@conradcole Yeah, I saw that this morning, too. People in #Taiwan generally viewed dog meat as illegal already, just not really enforced. If you ask the #Taiwanese, they would find it disgusting to eat it. People here are surprised they do it in #Korea. How about #Vietnam?
The bigger surprise is not allowing people to use scooters to exercise their dogs anymore.
@conradcole I know a Korean guy who was quite looking forward to it when he went home last year. I get the feeling it's more prevalent there than it is here.
@SlowRain Yeah. I do as well.
@SlowRain #Korea was another place where it seemed like a much bigger issue than an actual practice. Even in the late 90s, I don't remember ever actually meeting someone who ate dog or asked me to. It was one of those things that people knew about and some older people did it as an occasion, but it was talked about way, way more than it was practiced. There was a degree of defiance in keeping it in the face of Western judgement, but that was more on principle unrelated to actual eating.