After a three-year grace period, the bill would make slaughtering, breeding and sales of dog meat for human consumption illegal from 2027 and punishable by 2-3 years in prison.
Dog meat consumption, a centuries-old practice on the Korean Peninsula, is neither explicitly banned nor legalized in South Korea.
Recent surveys show more than half of South Koreans want dog meat banned and a majority no longer eat it.
But South Korea's dog meat industry has drawn more attention because of the country's reputation as a cultural and economic powerhouse.
There is no reliable official data on the exact size of South Korea's dog meat industry.
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