What happened to the tigers in South Korea?

Korean tigers, known as Siberian tigers (also Manchurian tigers) became extinct 95 years ago in South Korean peninsula. Japanese masters and other poachers had killed for the skin that had been a popular thing. read more

That is, until the last century when hunting and habitat loss pushed the Korean tiger over the brink of extinction in the wild in South Korea. With it went an important symbol of Korea’s identity. “Korea is the only country where the tiger is the centre of its culture,” says Korean artist, Cho Hyun-Kwon. read more

for the tiger hunts on the islands. In South Korea tigers are extinct. Heavily fortified walls of barbed wires in 4-km-wide demilitarized zone (DMZ) block all wild animals from travelling between South and North Korea. It was 1922 that the last tiger was seen and hunted on Mt. Daedeuk in Gyeongju, South Korea’s North Gyeongsang Province. read more