Is animal abuse common in “씨골“ (countey side)? Or am I dum?

Is animal abuse common in "씨골“ (countey side)? Or am I dum?

So firstly I’m completely white-washed lol, been in Canada for 12 years since I was 6 so apologies if ai’m over-exaggerating a LOT.

Basically the issue is I’m over at my grandparents country side to help with harvesting and saw a 2 cats, 4 dogs outside without much of anything. From what I understand they’re used as guard dogs or to alert the owners if anything goes wrong.

I’m not a dog behavioural guy but ik for a FACT two of them have some for. of issues. one of them gets territorial over food that gets dumped in a RUSTY SCOOP and the other straight up gets scared or defensive when coming near. The territorial one and the other two otherwise seem playful, however, they keep licking my knee area and jump when i’m leaving which idk what that means.
Their living conditions look horrid, literal feces on the ground and their own urine all over the place and the last dog’s area just has spiky metal poles lying around. Which can’t be normal right?

The two cats are straight up in a cage that’s “protected” by old plastic covers and got each other for the cold. One of them (black) is confirmed sick with the cold and the other one has a runny nose (seems like snot is leaking pretty easily from the nose).

I’ve also heard from my dad these are common in all country sides and kept OUTSIDE DURING THE WINTER (wtf) and are used to guard the chickens and cows from stuff (not sure what exactly.

Additionally, the kid of the owner–even though he’s 5–said the owner hits a couple of the dogs as well. Which can be taken with a grain of salt but judging from the last dog’s behaviour it seems really believable.

What I’m asking is: is this normal or “okay” in korea or is it an issue a lot of country sides have. Again, I apologize if I’m over-exaggerating everything.

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