South Korea hints at scrapping whaling plan AFP via Google News South Korea said Wednesday it may scrap its fiercely criticised plan to resume “scientific” whaling if experts come up with non-lethal means to study the mammals in its waters. “We may not conduct whaling for scientific research if there is another way to achieve the goal,” Kang Joon-Suk, a senior official of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, told reporters.

South Korea hints at scrapping whaling plan
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South Korea said Wednesday it may scrap its fiercely criticised plan to resume “scientific” whaling if experts come up with non-lethal means to study the mammals in its waters.

“We may not conduct whaling for scientific research if there is another way to achieve the goal,” Kang Joon-Suk, a senior official of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, told reporters.