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Gyeonmyo jaengju is a Korean folktale that has been traditionally been cited as the reason why cats and dogs fail to get along with each other. The story appears in numerous variations in several history folktale collections. The story is about a precious marble gifted to a poor fisherman by a mythic carp. After the marble is stolen, the ...
The dog is a rare breed, and is sometimes smuggled over the North Korea–China border. [3] [4] The dog was made a national monument of North Korea in April 1956, [5] and the national dog of the DPRK in 2014. [1]
The Jindo dog (Korean: 진돗개; RR: Jindo-gae) is an indigenous dog [1] [2] native to the island of Jindo in South Korea. It is also known as Jindo-gyeon (진도견; Jindo-gyeon) and formerly known as the Chindo dog. It is one of South Korea's National Treasures. It has a reputation for being loyal and good at tracking things. [3]
A dog adopted by the Heffley Family. Frank got the dog to satisfy Greg's wanting of a dog and his feelings over the loss of his pet fish. He (Frank) later gives the dog to the Heffleys' maternal grandmother at the end of the book. Timothy / Timmy / Tim: Mongrel: The Famous Five: Enid Blyton: All three names are found interchangeably. George ...
The Donggyeongi (Korean: 동경이), also called daeng gyeon (댕견) or Donggyeong gae (동경개), is a naturally bob-tailed dog breed that originated in Korea. [1] [2] It is an endangered breed of some 600 dogs in total and has been protected as a natural heritage in South Korea since 2012 (Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea, number 540).
The number of farms across South Korea has dropped by half from a few years ago to about 3,000 to 4,000, and about 700,000 to 1 million dogs are slaughtered each year, a decline from several ...
Baleia, the dog-companion that follows a poor family throughout the hardships of the 1915-drought in Brazil in Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos; Biruta, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Lygia Fagundes Telles; Bruno Lichtenstein, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Rubem Braga; Buck, in Jack London's The Call of the Wild
The name of this breed refers to its resemblance of the mythical dog beasts, with its completely reddish-maroon coat and nails, amber-colored nose and amber-colored eyes. The dog looks very much like the Jindo spitz dog breed, with the curled bushy tail and pointy ears, just with the exception of the deep maroon coat. The looks are archaic and ...