South Korea (Busan, 2012) — municipal rabies (광견병) preventive vaccination campaign covering dogs
Source: Busan Metropolitan City (부산광역시) press release on spring livestock and companion-animal infectious-disease prevention, dated 2012-04-06, reposted via the MFDS Imported Food Information Maru (수입식품정보마루). First-hand text retrieved 2026-07-24 via the Seoul relay (Playwright headless Chromium).
This is a municipal (Busan) public-information release, not the national statute. It reports Busan's first-half "livestock preventive injection" (가축예방주사) campaign, conducted to prevent malignant livestock infectious diseases and zoonoses. The campaign explicitly includes rabies (광견병) preventive vaccination, and the target animals explicitly include dogs (개) alongside livestock. The stated target is 224,000 head of livestock including dogs.
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광견병(EN: rabies)개(EN: dog)22만4천여 두(EN: approx. 224,000 head [of target livestock, including dogs])가축예방주사(EN: livestock preventive injection / vaccination)부산시(EN: Busan City)인수공통전염병인 광견병 예방주사도 동시에 시행한다(EN: rabies preventive vaccination — a zoonotic disease — is also carried out simultaneously)
Source: pdf-raw/kr-rabies/busan_rabies_vaccination_2012.txt — Busan Metropolitan City press release (2012-04-06), reposted on MFDS Imported Food Information Maru, retrieved 2026-07-24.