How some fish are sold in Korea

[lazyNode]

I saw this 2 years ago when I was in Seoul. The suburb where I saw this is known as the markets suburb, where the street markets and shopping centres are open 24 hours a day.

I believe the fish are Mountain Minnows, but notice how the bags are completely sealed. I wonder how many fish make it out of the bag and to a better home.
It looks packaged in a way to get a 5 year old kid to say "I want one" and then they forget about looking after it a week later.

They were also selling a similiar setup in a Pearl Tea cup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea)

Thank god the trend hasn't caught up with us here.

BTW, Can anyone translate what the packaging says?

 

[fishcatch22]

jeez... about as bad as those "water babies".

 

[Mgamer20o0]

there was a post soem time back of the wall of fish in bags like that

 

[ann6015]

Wow. I am half Korean, and I am appalled at that.

 

[sreid]

Shocking and very sad. Animals are often not considered to have any feelings. Breaks my heart

 

[Rbishop]

Weird.

 

[Que]

Looks similar to a bio-orb I have. It's a completly sealed mini cycling environment but that only had brine shrimp in it for about 7 years bofore the last one died off. I don't see how that could work for a fish.

Q

Maybe it's only supposed to be kept like that until you get it home. Perhaps it is a small cycling environment that's ment to last just so long.

 

[UnderWaterDiver]

Super late reply..

In case you still wondering what the package says:

If i see it correctly the package says:
"MiniFish"

It uses the korean chars but if you translate the chars one by one you directly get "minifish".

 

[Zaffy]

Different cultures have different values when it comes to keeping animals. I'd never go back to a store that had something like that around here.

 

[chrizza92]

Thats very mean i feel very bad for the fish, but have you seen what they do to dogs?