Korean vocabulary list:
death & burial practices
- 관–coffin
- 능–royal mausoleum; royal tomb
- 돌무덤–stone grave
- 매장–burial
- 매장되다–be buried
- 무덤–grave
- 보내다–die
- 사자–dead person; decedent; the dead; the deceased
- 산소–grave; tomb; graveyard; burial ground
- 살해되다–be murdered; be killed
- 서거–death; decease; demise
- 수의–shroud
- 신주–spirit tablet; memorial tablet; ancestral tablet
- 염–Washing the body of the deceased, then dressing it in a shroud and wrapping it in cloth
- 올라가다–go to heaven
- 유물–memento; legacy
- 유족–the bereaved; family of the deceased
- 잔해–remains
- 잡아가다–take; haul
- 장지–burial site
- 저승–afterlife; otherworld
- 저승길–journey toward death; last journey; road to Hades
- 저승사자–Grim Reaper; angel of death
- 조화–mourning flower
- 지다–die
- 지방–A memorial tablet used for a memorial service or ancestral rite, made by writing on paper
- 지하–afterlife; heaven
- 타계–passing away; death