Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea The Business of Death /

• Main Author: Han, Gil-Soo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Area studies.; Mass media.; Communication.; Ethnology-Asia.; International business enterprises.; Asia-Economic conditions.; Motion pictures-Asia.; Area Studies.; Media Sociology.; Asian Culture.; Asian Business.; Asian Cinema and TV.

This book explores 21st century Korean society on the basis of its dramatically transforming and rapidly expanding commercial funeral industry. With insights into contemporary Confucianism, shamanism and filial piety, as well as modernisation, urbanisation, the division of labour and the digitalisat...