Tag: monkeys

PETA is was recently protesting the Thai embassy in the Yongsan district of Seoul because apparently farmers in Thailand use monkeys to help pick coconuts and keep them in very poor conditions:

A performer, dressed in a monkey costume with a chain around his neck, pushes a cart piled high with coconuts in front of the Royal Thai Embassy in Yongsan District, Seoul, Friday afternoon. After taking several steps forward, he suddenly empties the cart, leaving dozens of coconuts precariously tumbling down the road, before picking up a sign.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but it is interesting that PETA is having this protest at the same time that abuses of migrant workers in South Korea is making headlines.

A Japanese macaque, also known as a snow monkey because it lives where it snows for several months every year, takes a moment of relief from a cold snap in a man-made spa at the Everland Resort zoo in Yongin, south of Seoul, on Feb. 1, 2016. The subzero weather returned over the weekend after a brief break from record-setting freezing weather in late January. (Yonhap)