Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea The Business of Death /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Han, Gil-Soo (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Political sociology.
Mass media.
Ethnology > Asia.
Culture.
Business.
Asia.
Motion pictures > Asia.
Political Sociology.
Media Sociology.
Asian Culture.
Asian Business.
Asian Film and TV.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Literature review and theoretical perspectives
  • Chapter 3. Economic, social and familial shifts in contemporary South Korea
  • Chapter 4. An analysis of four movies dealing with funeral rites in Korea
  • Chapter 5. Funeral and media-saturated world: An analysis of advertisements
  • Chapter 6. The rise, fraud and fall of funeral service conglomerates: topics and concerns in investigative journalism
  • Chapter 7. Grassroots concerns: an analysis of service user's bulletins boards
  • Chapter 8. Ossuary: social class in the afterlife
  • Chapter 9. Concluding remarks.

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