During the Spring thaw at a northern metropolitan area that I was once stationed at you started seeing things like cats and dogs that had died outside during horrific blizzards and would be covered up repeatedly over the course of a winter.
Additionally... where my mother grew up there was always a large population of dogs during the summer months but after the winter very few dogs remained as they were used as a customary food source.
Why so coy? Why not just come out and say "...in Korea"?
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