It was reported in today's Korean news that the male asian elephant "Bok-dong" in Dalseong Park Zoo in Daegu was pass away by heart attack on August 4th, Korean time. He was born in 1974, and on September 10, 1975, Daesung Industrial donated it to Dalseong Park and has been there until now.
It wasn't related to a direct cause of death, His feet have deteriorated beyond imagination in this concrete cell over the past few years. As you can see in the picture below.
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2023. 06. 05.
So, since June, Dalseong Park has started managing elephants' feet with the help of other zoos and veterinary colleges in Korea. And as we can see, it was late. too late.
Hoping that no zoo in Korea will try to raise elephants recklessly anymore, hoping even just only his old-mate 'Ko-soon' get out of this hellish empty concrete cell, and I hope that my old dream, "Daegu Metropolitan City gives up elephants," become true. I hope this doesn't just end in a dream.
Finally, I ask you to pray for his repose too. That narrow, empty, desolate concrete cell was everything of world he could have experienced until 48 years. But over the course of those 48 years, many visitors here were so uninterested in him and Ko-soon that they thought they were 'mother elephant and baby elephant,'. And they just mocked them by throwing food. I ask you to pray for his repose on behalf of them, who will be equally indifferent to his death.
R.I.P. Bok-dong. May he no longer suffer from pain, may we make he won't worry about the Ko-soon who's left in here.
It wasn't related to a direct cause of death, His feet have deteriorated beyond imagination in this concrete cell over the past few years. As you can see in the picture below.
2021. 11. 29.
2023. 03. 03.
2023. 06. 05.
2023. 05. 08.
Hoping that no zoo in Korea will try to raise elephants recklessly anymore, hoping even just only his old-mate 'Ko-soon' get out of this hellish empty concrete cell, and I hope that my old dream, "Daegu Metropolitan City gives up elephants," become true. I hope this doesn't just end in a dream.
Finally, I ask you to pray for his repose too. That narrow, empty, desolate concrete cell was everything of world he could have experienced until 48 years. But over the course of those 48 years, many visitors here were so uninterested in him and Ko-soon that they thought they were 'mother elephant and baby elephant,'. And they just mocked them by throwing food. I ask you to pray for his repose on behalf of them, who will be equally indifferent to his death.
R.I.P. Bok-dong. May he no longer suffer from pain, may we make he won't worry about the Ko-soon who's left in here.
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