Busan Facilities Corporation Implements Emergency Duty to Welcome Visitors for Ancestral Rites and Worship During Lunar New Year Holiday

Suspension of Cremation, Burial, Opening, and Enshrinement Services on Lunar New Year Day
Temporary Parking Secured, Extended Operation Hours of Enshrinement Hall

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Yoseop] Busan Facilities Corporation announced on the 21st that it will implement special management measures, including expanding the comprehensive situation room operation, and enter emergency duty in preparation for a concentration of visitors at Yeongnak Park and Memorial Park during the Lunar New Year holiday period.

At Yeongnak Park and Memorial Park, traffic order guidance, securing temporary parking lots, ambulance operation, and crackdown on street vendors will be carried out in cooperation with related organizations. To smoothly implement special management measures such as safety management for visitors paying respects and worshippers, cremation, burial, exhumation, and enshrinement services will be suspended on Lunar New Year's Day.

Status of Yeongnak Park parking lot. (Photo by Busan Facilities Corporation)

To disperse visitors and resolve traffic issues, additional temporary parking lots will be secured, including 4,600 spaces near Geumjeong District Citizens' Stadium and around Sincheon Village near Yeongnak Park, and 700 spaces on both sides of the roadside near Memorial Park. The visiting hours for the enshrinement hall will also be extended by 3 hours, operating from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Status of the memorial park parking lot. (Photo by Busan Facilities Corporation)

Since last Chuseok, Busan Facilities Corporation has been promoting a simplified visiting culture campaign for enshrinement facilities, encouraging paying respects through silent prayer and flower offering to establish a desirable visiting culture.

Starting from next year's Lunar New Year holiday, temporary visiting stands and ritual rooms will not be operated to alleviate traffic problems, improve congestion around the visiting stands, prevent safety accidents, and suppress the generation of large amounts of food and various wastes.

A representative of Busan Facilities Corporation requested, “Even during normal times, please actively cooperate by using public transportation when visiting funeral facilities, offering flowers with fresh flowers, and participating in the campaign to take your trash back with you.”

Last Lunar New Year, 160,000 visitors paid respects at Yeongnak Park, and 170,000 visitors at Memorial Park.

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