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This paper is intended to examine the management of crematoriums especially focused on metropolitan area and to suggest the way of the improvement.
Long traditional burial custom has been decreased in recent years since 1998. By contrast, the number of cremation is rapidly increasing due to the limited land, the easier way of care and the cheaper cost fee of funeral compared to burial custom. For example, the ratio of cremation to death in seoul exceeded 57.1% in 2002. Also this trend in funeral sector is getting supported by funeral culture improvement campaigns initiated by various citizen groups, nuclear family system and so on.
Although the demands for cremation sharply increase, the facilities and services which supplied at crematoriums are still sticking to past.
Because everything is changed very rapidly in a very short time, the culture for cremation hasn't made yet. Thus, it is very difficult to figure out the dignity, respect and consideration for the deceased people and their bereaved.
Under this circumstance, this study is firstly aimed at analyzing the management and facilities of crematorium as a director working at seoul city crematory. Secondly, it is purposed to suggest the useful data that examined the whole part of cremation never studied before to promote the more creative and specific work in this field. Thirdly, this is to propose the standard of the order and service supplying at the crematoriums.