ACT ON FUNERAL SERVICES

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to contribute to preventing risks to public health and hygiene and to promoting efficient utilization of national land and public welfare by prescribing matters relating to the methods of conducting funeral services and to installing, developing, managing, etc. funeral service establishments.

Article 2(Definitions) #

The terms used in this Act are defined as follows: <Amended on Jan. 28, 2015; Dec. 29, 2015>

1. The term "burial" means the burial of a dead body (including dead fetuses conceived for not less than four months; the same shall apply hereinafter) or its remains, in the ground, performed as part of a funeral service;

2. The term "cremation" means burning a dead body or its remains, which is performed as part of a funeral service;

3. The term "natural burial" means burying bone dust remaining after cremating human remains under or around a tree, flowering plant, grass, etc., which is performed as part of a funeral service;

4. The term "reburial" means moving any buried dead body or remains from one grave or charnel facility to another, or the cremation or natural burial of such body or remains;

5. The term "inurnment" means the placement of human remains in a charnel facility;

6. The term "grave" means a facility for the burial of a dead body or its remains;

7. The term "cemetery" means any area in which graves are established;

8. The term "crematorial facility" means any facility for cremation (including subsidiary facilities prescribed by Presidential Decree) of dead bodies or their remains;

9. The term "charnel facility" means any of the following facilities for placing (excluding burying) human remains:

(a) Charnel graves in the form of a grave;

(b) Charnel houses corresponding to architecture referred to in Article 2 (1) 2 of the Building Act;

(c) Charnel pagodas in the form of a pagoda;