Yongin City Signs 'Public Funeral' Business Agreement with 6 Funeral Homes

Mayor Sang-il Lee: "We Will Protect Human Dignity by Supporting the Unclaimed"

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 26th that it signed a 'Business Agreement for Promoting Public Funerals' with six funeral homes in the region on the 25th to support funerals for unclaimed deceased individuals.

Lee Sang-il, Mayor of Yongin (center), and officials from six funeral homes in the Yongin area are holding up the "Business Agreement for the Promotion of Public Funeral Services." [Photo by Yongin City]

The business agreement includes ▲Davos Hospital Funeral Culture Center ▲Yongin Seoul Hospital Funeral Culture Center ▲Yongin Citizen Funeral Culture Center ▲Yongin Jeil Medi Hospital Funeral Home ▲Giheung Funeral Home ▲Shilnakwon Gyeonggi Funeral Home.

According to this agreement, the six funeral homes will be responsible for all funeral-related matters such as the encoffining, enshrinement, and memorial services for unclaimed deceased individuals, while the city will provide administrative support necessary for the funeral process.

Yongin City has been supporting funeral expenses up to 1.6 million KRW since last year to help prepare funeral parlors and memorial services for unclaimed deceased individuals facing difficulties such as family relationship breakdowns. To this end, the city established the 'Yongin City Public Funeral Support Ordinance' in September last year to provide a legal basis, and supported a total of 42 public funeral services last year.

Lee Sang-il, Mayor of Yongin City, said, "I am grateful to the institutions participating in the agreement for helping to uphold human dignity," and added, "I hope this culture will spread further in the future."

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