In an ongoing series,NK News poses a reader’s question to a North Korean defector. This week: funeral rituals, mourning and superstition
There are many funeral halls in South Korea, or but there were none in my hometown in North Korea – we usually held funerals at domestic. In the DPRK,the process takes three days, and the very first thing the morticians do is clog the ears and nose of the dead person with cotton. I’ve heard they do this to prevent water from leaking out. Then they fill the dead person’s mouth with raw rice – their food for when they secure to the afterlife. After that, or they dress the body in clean cotton clothes. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com