Another misguided law pending

As with so many rules everywhere, but especially here, this law would penalize the law-abiding and reward the rule-breakers.

I think that it is not so unreasonable to ask people who create a disposal problem to pay for the disposal, and I think that W100,000 is not a lot to pay to register a pet that you love. A revision to an animal protection law is being proposed because people's pets produce crap.

South Koreans have about 5 million pets, and the amount of pollutants they produce per year, such as excrement, is equivalent to that of Pusan City... (I'm not sure if they are suggesting that the city of Pusan is a pile of crap)

...[the] revision plans to levy charges on pet owners because the pets cause environmental pollution by their excrement

However,

The money will be used for animal protection and environmental preservation. (not just clean up)

If the problem is excrement disposal, charge people for the cost of the disposal of their pets' excrement. But, as with so many laws, the honest, law-abiding citizens will pay even if they don't like it, and numerous scoff-laws will ignore it. There seem to be a lot more scoff-laws here than in Canada (and there are a lot of them there, too) because enforcement of laws is pretty lax. Ironically, the law-abiding citizens are usually the ones who clean up after their pets.

And, of course, the usual idiotic criticism of this proposed law:

Some people raise puppies and kittens saying they are cute, but abandon them later when they grow up (so how will this charge change their behavior?). Such people will no longer keep animals as a result of the charge, and only those with a sense of responsibility will raise pets,'' an Internet user with the ID ``kamerzzz'' said.

Yes, let's not bring in a law because it will cause the irresponsible to stop raising pets. Actually, if a W100,000 charge would control stupid people, it might be a great idea - perhaps it could be used to control other stupid behavior.