SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The telecommuting, online education, and telemedicine sectors have witnessed substantial growth in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside these trends, online ancestral rites are also gaining popularity. Leading up to Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving holiday, memorial parks across the nation saw a surge in visitors paying their respects to [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A 33-year-old office worker from the southwestern city of Gwangju who only gave his surname Lee had a unique experience of holding ancestral rites on social media last week. With photos of a memorial table set up at the house of the eldest son uploaded to the family’s KakaoTalk [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Various foods and busy daily routines are changing the way Chuseok memorial services are being held. Sales of prepared food for ancestral rites at 142 Emart stores nationwide for a week before Chuseok this year rose more than 20 percent from the same period last year. Sales of these [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The gap between men and women is significant in the opinion of ancestral rites, a major topic for the upcoming Chuseok holiday. According to a survey of 656 union members conducted by the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), 16.7 percent of men said they wanted their offspring to [...]
NONSAN, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Yeonsan Ogye Foundation, preserving the Korean tradition of remembering animal spirits since 2003, announced Tuesday that it plans to hold ancestral rites for deceased pets in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province on October 21. ‘Yeonsan Ogye’ refers to a kind of chicken native to the Yeonsan region. The species [...]