South Korea’s Dog Cloning Industry 

Buddha: suffering arises from attachment to things we know are impermanent Buddhist teacher: I HAVE TO RESURRECT MY PUPPY 😭😭

His attachment to his dog doesn't seem very Buddhist imo.

This is just a very expensive puppy mill.

This is incredibly interesting and f*%ked up at the same time

Cloning my cat would just feel sad. She'd look the same, and maybe even have similar tendencies, but would not have the same experiences. Would somehow feel like dishonoring the memory :(

Cloning your own dog in an attempt to control reincarnation doesn't seem very Buddhist to me.

He has his own little cult, going there.

The guy who 'resurrects his dog; lives in a pretty impressive house yet he needs to borrow money from his 'family' and also get a %50 discount somehow. And all of his 'students' wear the same clothing and are all women. I get the vibe that the guy is a cult leader more than a spiritual teacher. And the scientist, you know, fakes results of his morally and ethically questionable research, gets disowned by his scientific community, and becomes disgraced but somehow manages to avoid further repercussions. Founds a company, doing morally and ethically even more questionable things in a secluded and niche area of his profession. And he also looks down on his past. I mean, this is any evil scientist from any superhero/sci-fi story. And as a bonus, he does his work for ridiculous amounts of money and for people emotionally disturbed by the loss of their companion. And the man shaking his head in 7:23, I wonder, is he the future owner of the puppy being delivered, watching an innocent animal undergo unnecessary suffering because he wants his next pet to have the same genes as his past dog. Surrogate dogs don't seem very well cared for even in the video. And what happens to the puppies born with defects? Shelter? Street? Outright killed? What? And how doesn't a decent journalist asks this question? Forget about the journalist, how a decent human being with a conscience doesn't ask this? Shame on you! This was the disturbingly f***ed up thing I watched for some time.

The scientist that does the cloning has "supervillain" written all over him.

This is disturbing. I’m very concerned about the unethical work this “doctor” is doing. The poor surrogates look sad.

This dude is just insane tbh, it's clearly for him and his comfort, not the dog's. It's dead.

I'm sure humans are being cloned someplace in the world. If they can do it, there are people willing to pay to get it done.

If you really loved your dog, you wouldn't do this. Even if they look exactly the same, its a totally different dog with a different personality

I don’t know why, but there is something I find weird and sad, about the surrogate dogs being used like this. What do they actually do to them after the 2 times??? And do they REALLY use them only twice? Also side note: that spiritual dude, is kinda odd. As a spiritual master isn’t he meant to have learnt to deal with grief. Not saying it can’t affect him, but I would have imagined he would have felt more compelled to give a home to stray suffering dogs, instead of spending loads of money to continually clone his old dog.

I feel incredibly bad for the dogs who have to “mother” all these puppies.

In a way this is sad because people can't seem to move on from pets that to have passed away

I say it is much better to cherish the memories of a past pet, let go, and adopt from a shelter, or take a pet in off of the street. People who are thinking about cloning should take in, care for, and help another life rather than spend so much time and money trying to make a copy of a pet they have lost when that copy will not truly be the same. I feel that cloning is not needed at all and can actually become a disadvantage and negative by way of actually taking potential homes away from pets that are in shelters and in bad situations who need a good home as well as taking business away from breeders who breed. There are plenty of pets which are in shelters or in bad situations that would make wonderful pets if only more people would give them a chance. Also, since the creature that will be cloned is going to be different anyway, you might as well help out a different pet that will be able to fill the gap in your life in a much more cost effective way. You could even adopt multiple pets for the price of cloning one and still have enough money left over to care for and maintain those pets you helped save.

Even the clone dogs were looking at him like this is bulls**t.

This is disturbing.

He's not a real Buddhist if he can't let go of the dog. And that cloning factory is basically a puppy mill preying on people who can't face reality. Way too much yuck.

This man just spent a million dollars on clones . I can' even ...

Ugh this is so gross! When will humans stop finding new ways to abuse and exploit animals?! 😞

He could have just donated all that money to animal shelters in memory of his dog, and adopted another one as well. Just the fact alone that this is creepy and insane, some people have too much money and not enough brains...🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I feel bad for the surrogate mothers, i just hope they're being treated as good as one can be treated in that situation... idk man, poor dogs

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should. Our experiences make us who we are. Without that, we are empty shells. I am sympathetic to his pain, my dog died two weeks ago, RU-vid algorithm put this in front of me, I don’t take it as a sign. My dog was a maltipoo and couldn’t be replaced. As much as I miss her, to lose her again or bring deformed life up only to be put down? That seems more cruel than I can say, especially if you believe that these dogs are copies of your own fur baby.

2:28 the interviewer gave him a chance to be honest by asking "is this for you or for her?" and he just smacked the hand reaching to help him by saying "for her, definitely" and the interviewer instantly lost any small amount of respect he had for him. The guy is clearly a very shallow, surface level person.

My brother had a dog who he loved since he raised her since she was a puppy. She ran away but we still had one of her daughters to keep her lineage going. Fast foward to like five years we're now at the fourth generation and I claim one of the puppies as my own dog. I spent over $5k to keep her alive when she had parvovirus as a puppy. She's still alive and healthy now and will be 3 in a few months. I had thoughts of cloning her after she passes away since she's my first ever dog, but I might keep a puppy of hers and continue her lineage just we did with her great grandmother.

I'm glad Vice is covering this. It is a cool concept but very dystopian at the same time. But all this comes back to making money. This is just my opinion, but for me, it's not the same. The life you lived makes you the person you are. It's like if there's a clone of myself living in another country, we have the exact same genes but our lived experiences will be different.

Yea, this is a nasty industry. It seems like it's about loving our animals, yet to get a successful clone requires so much suffering on the part of the animals involved in producing it.

Came here after BobbyBroccoli's two-part series on the Korea's cloning scandal

''You offer nothing new, just a younger grape from the same vine, destined for the same old bottle''- Hari Seldon

Who's here after Bobby Brocoli?

Just adopt a dog please. There’s so many great homeless dogs looking for a home.

I would be doubting the validity of them being actual clones. All three puppies definitely have different genetics. It would actually be real easy for them to scam their customers.

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Those puppies look way to "chill"

Okay so... They're torturing those poor "mother" dogs. Keeping them in captivity, forcing them to get pregnant and give birth over and over again. Forcing repetitive surrogacy on them. And then the dogs giving birth, nursing them, caring for them and getting attached to the puppies just to have the ripped away from them. It's even possible that the mother dogs realize that the puppies don't smell right or don't look right. Dogs are intelligent and intuitive.. maybe they sense that something is off about the puppies that they were forcefully impregnated with. This entire process is disgusting. Just because some rich people can't cope in a healthy way or can't be mature enough to let their pets go. This is a completely selfish act. There are so many dogs, puppies and other pets sitting in over-filled pounds and rescues that desperately need a home. If these people really cared about their pets they would let them rest peacefully. If they really cared about animals, they would go to a shelter and seek out a dog that has a similar temperament as their previous dog. But these people who are paying 100,000 are doing this for completely fucked up selfish reasons. This is just so wrong.

I've grieved the loss of my boy. I did lose my sanity, more than once. For those who dismiss anyone in this video for being insane, be grateful that you have not experienced insanity that comes from the overwhelming pain of grief. Understand that grief is a horrible process that the brain has to go through and it can affect anyone differently. Even if you think you have control over yourself, grief can rip that away from you at times. I don't blame this guy at all for trying to find solace in any way he can. The pain that I felt from losing my dog I would not wish on anyone. I would wish that anyone that experiences that would have some way to relieve the pain. Until you've experienced that pain, I don't think you can fully understand how horrible it is. If I could describe eternal suffering i.e. what some would describe as hell, I would call it grief. Inconsolable pain so bad that you couldn't even imagine how bad it is, with no relief. Every possible joy robbed from you. That being said, I would not, in good conscience be able to force a female dog to have babies that so frequently have health problems to the point where the puppies have to be euthanized. That is not how I want to honour my boy. But after knowing what the pain of grief feels like, I would never judge anyone who feels differently. I can only imagine the experience of how it would be to see my boy as a puppy. I adopted him at age 5 and never got to experience his puppy years. I would find joy in that. Indescribable joy. Although I would be fully aware that any new puppy would never be the one I lost, I believe I could accept, in my mind and heart, that the puppy is a new being, and one that is just as special.

this guy cant move on from the fact that his beloved dog has passed away and trying to find a convincing reason to his mind to bring the dog back

That dog at the end reminded me of Paris Hilton's dog on that South Park episode. Her dog was so depressed it committed suicide. A funny episode!

A clown buying a cloned dog. That seems about right 😂

That guy doctored his reports and did multiple unethical procedures in early 00s and got fired from the university where he was working. How much do you think he’s changed ever since?

“I walk around like everything’s fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off.”

Vice coming through with the goods 🤙🏼

Imagine a cloned person from history locked away somewhere out thier

Its wild that cloning your pet is an actual service available to us. Technology is amazing now. There was a movie about this in the 2000s - The 6th Day and I thought it was too far fetched to ever be a thing lol.

Why is this creepy? It’s not resurrection…it’s a phenotypic clone… meaning they just look the same… and there are tons of dogs and cats who already look the same

That's just not okay, super wrong and creepy Poor female dogs that are being kept for this Just adopt a animal that needs a home

Lol i laughed so hard when he said the dog looked like snoopy and they all went “aahhh” 😂

What a strange world we live in. When us drone strike killed 10 civilians in Afghanistan no one care, but cloning dog it's big issue.

Something about the whole idea of cloning anything living is so twisted

it's really shocking to me. That biotech center on this video is right next to my place, holy, something bizarre I've never felt.

I'm surprised more people haven't commented about the surrogate situation. They can't consent to being artificially inseminated or to giving birth or to having to nurse puppies. How do they find them? How are they treated at the facility? What do they do with them once their "job" is finished? Incredibly fucked up and unethical.

So much for his detachment to material things.

The fact that Vice hired Andre Ward the retired boxing champ, paid him to rock the Kid 'n Play HiTop haircut AND THEN add Cloning Pets is Fking MAD😭🤣🍻Cheers!!!

Sometimes its better when memories stays memories 😔❤️

so who's bright idea was it to have white subtitles on a white background? if you'll pardon the pun

9:05 🤣 they couldn't figure out how to clone the dog, so instead of giving back his $100,000, they just found a lookalike baby breed

My dog is one of my best friends, my family won’t get another dog after her. She is 11 years old now and I really hope she lives a decade more. I also hope she doesn’t have to be put down and she can pass away peacefully by herself whenever it is time…I hope it doesn’t break my heart too much

Let me understand, the eggs that were being harvested, are from recently deceased females. Then they are cut up, extracted, implanted into another female that’s going to be deceased after ( doubtful) 2 pregnancies. These sweet dogs never go outside. Never walk on grass. Never have an owners love or experiences. And we call this OK????? Cruelty at its least level. 51 dogs dead for one clone. Disgusting

Really creepy,we know they cloning humans too😂💯

Adopt a new puppy or a stray dog you will fall in love again

I feel sorry for the surrogates. This is so wrong.

Do androids dream of cloned dogs?

Human cloning is probably happening, we just don't know about it yet

4:06 seeing that dog on the left honestly made me sad I wonder if his leg is one of the defects from cloning.

Do you think the two extra dogs are jealous of Moon? You know dude's giving her extra attention.

Never underestimate the power of denial (from everyone in the video)

youtube recommendations: want to watch a cult leader clone his dog? me: sure

Healthy? Those pups struck me as awfully lethargic for their age

At least these animals are not suffering the same problems as puppy mills... All the owners who have their pets cloned clearly would be willing to spend that much, since they see their pets like their family/adoptive family, not just friend/partner, someone who they consider that they can't live without.

I love my dog and will probably find it difficult to let go when he leaves but I can't imagine doing this it feels like it would disrespect his memory not to mention those poor mummy dogs have no quality of life this is just a glorified puppy mill

I don't know how I feel about this

He is only perpetrating one scam already, no reason to think this cloning is a scam too.

BREAKING: Korean geneticists first to successfully solve the age old dilemma of Having your Dog and eating it too

I wonder why they didn't interview his wife or his girlfriend to ask how she feels about this

9:15 dude politely wondering if he has been scammed

The poor pup died from all the cringe happening around her R.i.P doggo.

Wait, I don’t understand. How did the company get what they needed to clone Juanjuan? She was cremated. I didn’t realize that there was any viable DNA or anything left in the ash…

I'm korean & I'm embarrassed to say this is DISGUSTING!!!! Not 🚫 NATURAL 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 THESE PPL ARE SICK & THEY'LL HAVE TO DEAL WITH GOD!! GOD BLESS THESE PPL 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Reminded of that story where a woman goes to Buddha asking him to revive her dead son. Maybe this Buddhist teacher had never heard of it

This is borderline frightening and completely eery.

the dogs dont look happy

I just got burned on reddit because I commented about South Korea's dog cloning industry and people said the documentary I watched was fake and cloning isn't something that happens in today's era. Is that true? Is cloning dogs in Korea fake?

Why not just get another dog of the same breed and name it the same?

Who are they kidding cloning humans been going on for decades

Maybe do a video on south korean puppy mills/kitty mills next. It's terrible here.

Lol, that poor dude. Try realizing that smell during your own vasectomy. It's not fun.

I want my own clone now

I loved my dog so much I cloned her and she's back. It's for her good I swear. I wouldn't have done it if she didn't tell me to......dude this is not your spiritual club, who do you think you're fooling 😒

i just lost my beloved dog and ive been so depressed over it. Id probably do some crazy ish like this if i could afford it. Then again ive read pet cemetary and watched childs play... id probably be asking myself if its really her essence...Besides that, im not sure i like this idea of forced surrogacy for the dog.

15 million prayers for Gabe the dogs to come back.

Ummm. What happens to the host mama dogs?

He should've done what Humane Society does by convincing dog farmers to convert to a different type of farming. They surrender all the dogs they have w/the promise to not continue & HS sets them up with some kind of crop farm. A lot of them only do it because it's cheap & easy to breed dogs for slaughter. He could've done a lot of good & changed a lot of lives w/that money.

What even happens to the other puppies that were born in the litter?

Damn imagine eating fresh dog meat and they tell you its a clone

this doesn't seem right, there are so many animals that need homes, it's wrong to clone your dog when you know they're not even going to be the same dog.

The real question is, what do they do with the extras that arent picked? I have trouble believing they are all adopted after :(

Would never do this to my best friend. So sad and awful

I think it’s seriously fucked up how this company preys on peoples grief just to make money