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KMID : 0613620090290020098
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Health Social Welfare Review
2009 Volume.29 No. 2 p.98 ~ p.125
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A Study of Standard Funeral Service Charge
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Lee Pil-Do
Kim Mi-Hye
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Abstract
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This research is aimed at furthering the understanding of use of funeral services and their charges by regional investigations in Korea. The data from the research is to come up with a way to calculate standard funeral service charges, which will help prepare a proper and rational guideline for funeral service charges applicable in a wider area. The concept of standard funeral service charge can be defined as an average cost needed to hold a funeral service, with general conditions for it fully secured. Centered on some basic investigations on the use of funeral services, the rise and decline of the costs to use funeral facility including funeral homes, and so on, this research also utilized relevant documents and statistical data while studying the costs bereaved families actually paid at each funeral home or facility. A funeral service can be defined as consulting prior to a service, holding a rite within a given time, providing related facility, articles, and extra service which are necessary. By the way, the whole procedure mentioned is subject to the limitation of time and space, leading to the difficulty of its standardization. Furthermore, in spite of the variety of provided articles and facility, service users’ lack of knowledge and information prevents them from making a rational choice in terms of price, quality, etc. shows the objects, method, procedure, details, and limitation of the investigation, analyzing the resultant funeral charges both categorically and collectively. The researchers conducted their task by visiting, mail, e-mail, and phone. They conducted their research in order of preliminary, main, and complementary investigations. Based on the result of the investigation, Section 4 decides which comes first among the details needed for a funeral service while calculating 4 model funeral service charges referring to the result of the service charge investigation.
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KEYWORD
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funeral service, cost of using funeral facility, cost of weight, standard funeral service charges
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