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Escaped Bear on the Lose in Yongin

If there is actually a bear on the lose I hope it gets far away from the horrible conditions it is being held in based on the pictures of these cages:

Officials of Yongin City and the environment ministry inspect a bear farm in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, July 8, two days after two three-year-old bears escaped from the breeding farm. One of them was found and killed on the day of the escape, and the authorities are searching for the remaining one. Yonhap

It has been a week since two Asian black bears escaped from a breeding farm in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, but authorities are still searching for one of them after the other was killed. 

Earlier on July 6, the owner of a bear breeding farm in Yongin reported to the city government that two three-year-old male bears, weighing 60 kilograms each, disappeared at around 10:30 a.m. Workers from the city’s wild animal control department and the Ministry of Environment conducted a search operation of nearby mountainous areas and killed one of them after finding it near a house about a kilometer from the farm.

But the authorities suspended the search two days later as no trace of the other bear had been found. The city government said it would lure the bear to the farm and attempt to capture it rather than killing it following protests from animal rights groups. It installed three unmanned traps and three thermal imaging cameras near the farm.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but according to the article the owner of the farm may be lying about there being two bears escaped and it could have only been the one that was shot.

Picture of the Day: Yongin Selected to Be Site of World’s Second Biggest Semiconductor Plant

Site for world's biggest semiconductor cluster
Site for world’s biggest semiconductor clusterThis aerial photo shows Wonsam Village in Yongin, some 50 km south of Seoul, which SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, announced on Feb. 21, 2019, as a candidate site for the world’s biggest semiconductor cluster worth 120 trillion won (US$106.6 billion). (Yonhap)