Four-legged lifesavers: Inside Korea’s growing canine blood donation network

Cappu is 7 years old, weighs 31 kilograms and, by most measures, lives an ordinary golden retriever’s life. But over the past four years, he has quietly built up an unusual record: 10 blood donations. His latest and final donation came on July 31 at Konkuk University’s KU I’m Dognor Blood Donation Center in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul. By then, Cappu had collected the full set of colorful scarves the center gives canine donors as they mark each donation milestone. For his guardian, Jo Hang-deok, the idea