Even the octopus you used to love… Online turnover in 20 minutes

The reporter grew up watching the New Year’s turn every year. In the family, a total of three rites are held, two times a year and one joint rite. This Lunar New Year, in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), only adults in the household decided to gather with less than 5 people to have a turn. This year, instead of not going to my parents’ family, I decided to set up an online turnaround.

First of all, access the’e-Haneul Business Information System’ operated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and go to the’Online Memorial/Sacred Tomb’. After signing up and logging in, you can register the memorial hall where the deceased was enshrined by clicking’Search National Memorial Facilities’. However, the reporter’s grandfather was buried in Seonsan Cemetery. It does not come out even if I search. In this case, you can click on the’eHaneul Online Memorial Hall’ in the site. It can be used by all citizens who do not use the registered facilities.

The next step is to decorate the memorial hall. If you press’Youngjeong Photo Management’, you can display a picture of the deceased. There was no picture of my grandfather’s Yeongjung, so I just posted the name. Afterwards, you can choose food such as rice (guk), soup, jeon, red, pho, fish, fruit, etc., and put it on the table. A reporter who is a woman in her twenties has no experience in setting up a table alone. It is about changing food in turn according to the instructions of an adult in the family. I was embarrassed because I couldn’t remember which food to put in which place.

In this case, you can click’Reference Site’ at the bottom of the site. It is connected to the site of the National Folk Museum, where you can see how to set up in order. However, the location of food and placement may differ slightly by region and house to house. In this case, remembering the memories of the deceased and setting up a prize. The reporter posted an octopus that his grandfather had enjoyed in his lifetime. It took about 20 minutes to decorate the table. Although it was online, his sincerity was as good as offline. After preparing the table, pride came.

In the memorial hall, you can also post text, audio, and video in addition to the order. The decorated memorial hall can be shared on KakaoTalk and Facebook. When I sent the family a table of turns, they responded, “It’s amazing”, “Change the food location,” “Isn’t there too much food?” As the meetings become difficult due to Corona 19, the turn of events is also being simplified. On the 2nd, the Korea Institute for the Advancement of Korean Studies also recommended that the original state of the order of not serving a lot of food should be restored during the Lunar New Year this year in consideration of the corona 19 incident.

According to the Korea Funeral Culture Promotion Agency on the 10th, the’online memorial service and the Holy Sepulcher service’ started from Chuseok last year. The cumulative number of visitors from September 21 to October 4 last year recorded 230,000. The number of users is expected to increase this Lunar New Year. From the 18th of last month to the 9th of last month, it was counted that 184,053 people visited. During the month of January, an average of 1,000 people visited a day, 3855 on the 8th and 8,916 on the 9th.

In this new year, a function was added to reflect the user’s request. Last Chuseok, there was a complaint requesting an increase in facilities that provide online grave services. Since then, all public business facilities have been made available to provide services. There are a total of 421 facilities that provide online grave services, including 226 public facilities and 195 private facilities as of 10 days. In addition to the request to show the facility, a video of the facility view was provided, and the choice of flowers and incense was expanded.

Shin Hyun-jeong (27) of the system management department of the Korea Funeral and Cultural Promotion Agency said, “I am glad and rewarding to be able to provide the necessary services to citizens in a timely manner in the city of Corona 19.” “He said.

Users of the online grave service are generally satisfied. Kim Shin-young (47), who lives in Wonmi-gu, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, said, “It was nice to be able to participate with my son, including my daughter and husband, who are serving in the military.” He continued, “I tried to go to the Seongmyo in person, but the facility where my grandmother died was closed during the Lunar New Year holiday due to Corona 19,” he said. “Last year, I happened to know through the news on Chuseok. That’s right,” he added.

Kang Hyun-min (45, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do) also said, “I am regretful that I cannot go to the grave of my deceased father on this New Year’s Day following the last Chuseok, so I used the service.” I did.” “The service is generally satisfactory,” he said, “but I was disappointed that if I wrote a long memorial letter, I couldn’t see it at once. I wish I could write a long letter.”

There are also opinions that online graves are unfamiliar. Jeong Da-hee, a 28-year-old office worker, said, “No matter how much online adult cats have developed, it’s a bit… “I think it’s right to visit in person and raise a drink. Non-face-to-face cannot replace face-to-face.”

Reporter Ham Min-jung [email protected]