On Jan. 1, 1998, I created this Jindo website in English, dedicated to clearing up inaccurate information about the Jindo and reversing the negative portrayal that a certain book author had painted about all Jindos. The website was done in the enthused spirit of sharing everything that I knew and proceeded to learned about Jindos from Koreans with fellow English-speaking fanatics.  Over the years, people have either lauded or denigrated the website, depending on whether the information reinforced what they themselves knew about Jindos or whether it exposed them as frauds. 

After the death of HwangJae on Jan. 1, 2008, exactly ten years after the creation of this site, I asked myself if was time to close down this website.  Despite my past passion for setting people straight when it came to Jindos, I am at heart a deeply private individual.  I enjoy being a student of the breed and love interacting with Jindos.  I dislike being the scapegoat or lightening rod for every single thing that goes wrong in the Jindo world simply because I dared to share.  I am tired of the people who use Jindos to assuade their low self-esteem, who make petty digs at every opportunity that they have, and who prop themselves as Jindo experts while at the same time denying the innate nature of the breed. 

In the end though, I decided to keep up this website for nearly the same reason I started it.  As of Jan. 30, 2008, there is new inaccurate information about the Jindo and the Jindo scene from a surprising new source, and the future of the Jindo is on a  precipitous moment in the English-speaking world.  Now is not the time to withdraw. 
 

I can be reached via my email  or my guestbook if you have any questions or comments about the information on this site. 
 

-Ann aka "jindojunkie"