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One of the most distinguishable points of the present Korean funerary culture is the funerary house. Due to a number of reasons such as environmental changes in occupation and urbanization people could not held domestically funerary rites on their own. Today funerary houses have become one of cultur...

One of the most distinguishable points of the present Korean funerary culture is the funerary house. Due to a number of reasons such as environmental changes in occupation and urbanization people could not held domestically funerary rites on their own. Today funerary houses have become one of cultural phenomena by establishing Korean Industrial Standards(KS) in providing their services as part of the major living cultural services. In other words it has emerged as a new folkloric icon. Accordingly this paper analyzes the actual status of the funerary service in an empirical way. The service consists of facility service and personnel service in a large way. The former covers essential equipment such as the corpse processing. Recently it has developed to the cozy lounge and business room for the mourner and visitors. It has resulted from a management strategy of commercialism to consider the mourner as a customer. The letter service can be interpreted as the role of the funeral director who has been professionally trained and satisfied customers. Their main responsibilities are ritual service and administrative service. In spite of their concrete roles, however, they cannot fully focus on the ritual aspect since the House is usually run in a highly commercialized atmosphere. The only visible role is the corpse processing for the main rite. As a result of the analysis, unlike the existing insistence, the funeral event at the house are not entitled to the expert. The burden related to the rites which is usually taken by the surviving family are as followed : roles of funeral directors due to the lack of man power; conflicts between the bereaved family; social recognition about the funeral director; conflicts with the funeral service company; highly commercialized management. All in all service quality at the funerary house seems to be stagnant at the half level of our expectation. Given that the service provided at the funerary house has appeared as a new cultural phenomenon, it is undeniable that it has become one of new ritual folklife customs.

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