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Lee, J.S. (2012) Rite of Death as a Popular Commodity: Neo Liberalism, Media, and New Korean Funeral Culture.
Park, C.W. (2010) Cultural Blending in Korean Death Rites: New Interpretive Approaches. (p.92-102)
https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/MMHC-Country-Press-Note-Korea.pdf
Park, C.W. (2010) Funerary Transformations in Contemporary South Korea. Mortality. Vol.15 (1) (p.18-37)
Bigbang Loser -
Beautiful Gong Shim - https://www.dramafever.com/drama/4917/1/Beautiful_Gong_Shim/?ap=1
A Korean funeral - http://www.seoulsite.com/survival-faq/a-korean-funeral/
Act On Korean Funeral Services - https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_mobile/viewer.do?hseq=31643&type=part&key=36
More Koreans cremated - http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20151109001075
https://www.dramafever.com/drama/4917/1/Beautiful_Gong_Shim/?ap=1
8,000 Square miles bigger
Half the SK population at about 25mil
Selling burial grounds to overseas Koreans for income.
Cremation and Burial.
According to Chung-Won Park, before the 1990's most of the time when people resorted to cremation, they were either poor or a 'bad death' like suicide or death of the young, had occurred. Not even used in the Korean War.
S.Korean Suicide rates have been a cause for concern the past decade or so.
17.8% (1991) to 33% (2000) to 42.5% (2002)
1982 - Law was passed requiring hospitals with >100 patients to have a mortuary.
1993 & 1997 - Government policy to encourage cremation because of size was rejected by NA, Confucians and public.
1998 - Loss of graves due to heavy rains and the cremation of Chaebol SK owner Jong Hyun-Choi might have prompted a YES! on the agreement (MEDIA).
2001 - Law revised so that anyone buried
had to be dug up after 60 years.
+ Christianity.
One way to show filial piety - Geomancy
"Auspicious environment" for a good burial place will bless future generations.
Good Burial grounds were hard to find,
Burial land is expensive for purchase,
Cremation is subsidized and burial only for Koreans who left the country at a certain time or for veterans,
It is hard for people to perform
UPDATED NEO-CONFUCIANISM AND FUNERAL RITES IN the REPUBLIC OF KOREA.