Problems of dog cafés in Korea

In Korea, dog cafes have been around for a long time but only started booming four or five years ago as Korean began having fewer children, owning more dogs instead.
People who don’t have dogs, but love them come dog cafe to play with them, and dog owners come here to let their pets play with others. So the dogs are let loose inside the café, to go wherever they wish. They could play, run, and even cuddle up in people’s arms.

However, many people often pointed out that original purpose of dog cafe 'space for animal lovers and pet' is long gone and now it has turned into means of just making money aimed at a niche market in many cases.

The biggest problem is the lack of professionalism and expertise.
Most dog cafes are run by part-timer with no knowledge of physical characteristics and habits of dogs and part-time worker often have to take care more than 20 to 30 dogs thus it can not be properly managed.

Snacks and treats for dogs sold in dog cafes also brings problem threatening the health of the dogs.
Mr.Han(27) who recently visited one of dog cafe in Seoul said, "I was surprised to see students in school uniform were not restrained at all by cafe staffs when they bought much dog snacks such as beef jerky to distribute to dogs."
It is possible to provide an unlimited number of dog snacks if you buy it in store.
Kim whee yuel, Professor of veterinary medicine at Konkuk University said "Don’t let your dog get fat by giving him too many between-meal snacks; obese dogs often develop serious health problems and nutritional imbalance,"

Park So Yeon, an animal protection association representative, said "in many cases dog cafe business is not continuous and unstable, and many dogs at cafe in worse health condition often put to sleep after cafes going out of business and it is strictly speaking, none other than animal cruelty"

No specific legal standards for pet cafe in Korea is considered as a cause of flooding with unqualified pet cafes nowadays.
When managing a large number of dogs also require conditions such as mandatory veterinary contract for the prevention of disease and restriction of the number of dogs per area, it is raising criticism that the lack of related systems and managing easily led many dogs in pet cafes exposed to diseases such as viruses.