"Please Refrain from Visiting Municipal Burial Facilities During Lunar New Year Holidays" Seoul City Closes Indoor Columbarium
Visitation limited to 6 people... Special quarantine measures including suspension of free shuttle bus and closure of ceremonial rooms
Seoul City Crematorium operates 'Cyber Memorial House' on its website... Encouraging non-face-to-face visitation
[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Facilities Corporation announced on the 21st that it is asking people to refrain from visiting graves at Seoul municipal burial sites such as Yongmiri and Byeokjeri during the Lunar New Year holiday period.
To prevent the spread of COVID-19, the corporation plans to close the indoor columbariums at five Seoul municipal cemeteries from the 29th of this month to the 2nd of next month. The indoor memorial facilities to be closed include four columbariums (Seunghwawon Memorial House, grave-type memorial house at Yongmi 1 Cemetery, royal tomb-style memorial house, building-type memorial house at Yongmi 2 Cemetery) and three indoor ritual rooms (building-type memorial houses).
Additionally, shuttle bus services that were operated for visitors' convenience will not be available, and patrol personnel will be deployed to enforce quarantine guidelines such as limiting the number of visitors to six per grave visit and refraining from food consumption.
Meanwhile, the corporation continuously operates the Cyber Memorial House service, which allows people to honor and commemorate the deceased by performing grave visits and ancestral rites online. On the Seoul Municipal Seunghwawon website, users can search for the deceased, upload photos, offer flowers, and set up ritual food tables for memorial ceremonies. After registering as a member and setting the memorial to 'public,' relatives and acquaintances can also participate in the commemoration.
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Director Cho Seong-il said, "We hope that the online non-face-to-face grave visits through the Cyber Memorial House will help alleviate the regret of not being able to visit in person," and added, "If visiting graves during the Lunar New Year holiday is unavoidable, we ask that quarantine rules be strictly followed."
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