Updated Jan.6,2005 20:35 KST

Animal Rights Group Plans Naked Rally Friday

Naked Animal Rights' Rally Grinds Downtown Seoul to a Halt
Members of a U.S.-based animal rights group will stage an anti-fur protest in downtown Seoul on Friday during which they intend to strip naked.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said they will hold a nude protest against the use of fur in front of Woori bank in Myeongdong, Seoul at noon. Two female members including Christina Cho, a Korean-American animal rights activist, will participate in the protest. They will wear body paint and hold anti-fur placards.
Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) stage an anti-fur protest, while holding a picket that reads ¡°Here is the rest of your fur coat¡± alongside the carcass of a dead fox, in Tokyo on Tuesday.

This is the first time that PETA members have been so brazen in their demonstration against animal abuses as to publicly de-clothe themselves. The group said that it is organizing the protest to send out a global alarm against Asia's growing fur industry.

(Tak Sang-hoon, if@chosun.com )