South Korea — Pet Rearing Status Survey (반려동물양육현황조사) approved under Animal Protection Act Art. 94
Source: Statistics Korea (국가데이터처) Notice No. 2025-29 (고시 제2025-29호) approving the "Pet Rearing Status Survey" (반려동물양육현황조사); first-hand text retrieved from kostat.go.kr board view (list_no=438984) on 2026-07-24 via the Seoul relay (Playwright headless Chromium).
On 2025-10-24 the National Statistics Office (국가데이터처) promulgated Notice No. 2025-29 approving the Pet Rearing Status Survey (반려동물양육현황조사) as a nation-recognized statistic. The legal basis is Animal Protection Act Article 94 (실태조사 및 정보의 공개 — status survey and information disclosure), which requires the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (농림축산식품부) to collect, investigate and analyse, and publicly announce each year, information on companion-animal rearing. The survey covers 3,000 households nationwide and is conducted annually.
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반려동물양육현황조사(EN: Pet Rearing Status Survey)동물보호법 제94조(실태조사 및 정보의 공개)(EN: Animal Protection Act Article 94 — status survey and information disclosure)농림축산식품부(EN: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs — the statistics-producing agency)제114063호 [2025.10.16.](EN: approval/consultation number 114063, dated 2025-10-16)2025년 10월 24일(EN: promulgation date 24 October 2025)3000가구(EN: survey scope — 3,000 households)통계작성의 주기 : 1년(EN: statistical production cycle — 1 year / annual)국가데이터처 고시 제2025-29호(EN: Statistics Korea Notice No. 2025-29)
Source: pdf-raw/kr-market-stats/kostat_pet_rearing_survey_2025.txt — Statistics Korea Notice No. 2025-29 (고시 제2025-29호) first-hand text, kostat.go.kr, retrieved 2026-07-24.