World | South Korea South Korean Monks Pray for 1.9M Culled Animals Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak worst in country's history By Kevin Spak Posted Jan 19, 2011 2:39 PM CST Copied South Korean Buddhist monks with the ancestral tablets of livestock killed by foot-and-mouth disease march during a memorial service at the Jogye Temple in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) Buddhist monks in South Korea held a massive memorial service today for the more than 1.9 million animals killed in a desperate attempt to halt the country’s foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. Surrounded by the faithful, the monks bowed before photos of the culled animals, offering them chrysanthemums as a traditional symbol of grief. “We have to do our best to make animals infected … die peacefully with the help of the government,” one monk said, an allusion, according to the AP, to criticisms that the livestock killings have been inhumane. According to the government, the animals were given muscle relaxants, killed and buried. But activists have claimed that many pigs were buried alive. Read These Next Trump isn't talking about a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. South Park episode on Trump may be a real 'mess' for him. Now we know why Ghislaine Maxwell may have opened up to the DOJ. Journal pulls a controversial paper on arsenic after 15 years. Report an error