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    Traditional Korean and Egyptian funerals share several similarities: Both cultures wrap the deceased in white cloth and oil the body to delay decomposition, akin to Egyptian mummification. They mourn at the body for hours before placing it in a wooden or metal coffin. The dead are buried underground, with Koreans in large soil mounds and Egyptians in pyramids - both marking the deceased's status. After burial, both cultures have feasts celebrating the deceased's passage, though Koreans additionally have family watch over the grave for three years. While the customs have different names, the underlying procedures and beliefs around death and burial are remarkably alike between Korea and Egypt.

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    Traditional Korean and Egyptian funerals share several similarities: Both cultures wrap the deceased in white cloth and oil the body to delay decomposition, akin to Egyptian mummification. They mourn at the body for hours before placing it in a wooden or metal coffin. The dead are buried underground, with Koreans in large soil mounds and Egyptians in pyramids - both marking the deceased's status. After burial, both cultures have feasts celebrating the deceased's passage, though Koreans additionally have family watch over the grave for three years. While the customs have different names, the underlying procedures and beliefs around death and burial are remarkably alike between Korea and Egypt.

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    Traditional Korean and Egyptian funerals share several similarities: Both cultures wrap the deceased in white cloth and oil the body to delay decomposition, akin to Egyptian mummification. They mourn at the body for hours before placing it in a wooden or metal coffin. The dead are buried underground, with Koreans in large soil mounds and Egyptians in pyramids - both marking the deceased's status. After burial, both cultures have feasts celebrating the deceased's passage, though Koreans additionally have family watch over the grave for three years. While the customs have different names, the underlying procedures and beliefs around death and burial are remarkably alike between Korea and Egypt.

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    Traditional Korean and Egyptian funerals share several similarities: Both cultures wrap the deceased in white cloth and oil the body to delay decomposition, akin to Egyptian mummification. They mourn at the body for hours before placing it in a wooden or metal coffin. The dead are buried underground, with Koreans in large soil mounds and Egyptians in pyramids - both marking the deceased's status. After burial, both cultures have feasts celebrating the deceased's passage, though Koreans additionally have family watch over the grave for three years. While the customs have different names, the underlying procedures and beliefs around death and burial are remarkably alike between Korea and Egypt.

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    Junyoung Park / 201221741

    Oct 22, 2015


    Comp 2: Mid-term essay
    Professor: Vincent Gilhooley
    Traditional funerals of Korea and Egypt
    Can you imagine similarities between Korea and Egypt? Surprisingly their traditional
    funerals are similar to each other. It could be because both countries thought death as
    something more than just the end of life as it is on earth. The similarities and difference of
    procedure of the funeral, where will it be buried what happens after the death will be
    discussed.
    Firstly, procedures of Korean funeral and Egyptian funeral dont differ much to each
    other. When the person dies both countries wear white color clothes and wraps the dead body
    in the white cloth. They will then oil the body so that it wont turn rotten quickly, which is
    called mummifying in Egypt but its actually pretty much same as Korean style, its just that
    the Egyptian mummification lasts longer. They will mourn at the clothed dead body for
    hours. Only difference is that Koreans goes inside a wooden coffin while as for the Egyptians
    they go inside a metal coffin. Afterwards they are positioned inside the coffin they will be
    carry to where day need to be buried, which will be explained later on.
    Secondly, both countries burial ground is quite similar. For the Koreans, they are
    buried under the huge lump of soil, which makes it look like a small mountain. In front is a
    smooth rock which has your name and your social position carved into it. Egyptians gets
    buried inside a pyramid, in front is a sphinx, bigger the sphinx greater position you had while
    living. From the fact that both Korea and Egypt buries their dead body is similar, they also
    shows the position while they were alive and final they both bury what they loved and liked
    with them inside the grave.
    Lastly, what happens after funeral is similar too. When the person is dead and well
    buried inside the grave, both Egypt and Korea has a party or a feast because they both
    believed that they have gone to good place. Sometimes it lasted for days. Only difference

    between Egyptian funeral and Korean funeral is that after the feast and all, the Koreans had
    something called 3year stay where the son or close family member will stay with the grave
    for three straight years with the help of other family members. Other than that they both had
    similar scenario after death.
    To sum up, it seems very different for both countries funeral because they are called
    different, but when you look into it its actually quite same. The procedure of the funeral,
    being buried under ground with items they valued much, and what happens after the funeral
    was very similar to each other. We can learn from this that while some countries might seem
    to have different customs, when looked into closely they are quite similar in lot of aspects.

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