It’s more shallow than that: dog consumption was already nearly eradicated except among the poorest in South Korean society. This is a cheap optics win for a fascist administration trying to take eyes off of the failures of President Yoon’s economic policy, or him targeting women, minorities, and disabled people.

It’s good that dog meat is banned, but it was already rapidly fading. It wasn’t a delicacy, it was for the poorest of the poor and now Yoon gets to pat himself on the back.