Hwaseong's Yanggam-myeon Installs Memorial Monument for Livestock Buried in Foot-and-Mouth Disease Culling

A 'Life-Loving Monument' has been installed in Yanggam-myeon, Hwaseong City to console the spirits of livestock that were culled and buried due to foot-and-mouth disease.

The Yanggam-myeon Autonomous Livestock Disease Control Unit in Hwaseong City (head Jo Jang-chan) said, "In response to the foot-and-mouth disease and avian influenza that swept the nation in early 2011, we decided to install this monument to comfort the spirits of the livestock that were culled and buried, and to express our hope that such livestock infectious diseases will not recur."

The monument was installed at the three-way intersection in front of Yanggam-myeon Office, and approximately 100 people, including Yanggam-myeon Chief Kim Hak-heon and officials and employees from livestock farms, attended the unveiling ceremony.