Korean vocabulary list:
death & burial practices
- 가묘–temporary tomb; empty grave
- 거두다–collect; take care of
- 관–coffin
- 구천–the other world
- 꺼지다–die
- 끊기다–be killed; die
- 끊다–kill; die
- 끊어지다–be killed; die
- 능–royal mausoleum; royal tomb
- 돌무덤–stone grave
- 돌아가다–die
- 떠나다–pass away
- 뜨다–die
- 만장–elegy; funeral ode; funeral streamer
- 매장–burial
- 매장되다–be buried
- 무덤–grave
- 별세–passing away; decease
- 보내다–die
- 부고–obituary; notice of death
- 사라지다–die
- 사자–dead person; decedent; the dead; the deceased
- 산소–grave; tomb; graveyard; burial ground
- 살해되다–be murdered; be killed
- 서거–death; decease; demise
- 서거하다–die; decease; pass away
- 수의–shroud
- 신주–spirit tablet; memorial tablet; ancestral tablet
- 안장–burial; interment; cremation
- 염–Washing the body of the deceased, then dressing it in a shroud and wrapping it in cloth
- 영전–being in front of the spirit of the deceased
- 영정–portrait of the deceased; picture of the dead
- 영혼–soul; spirit
- 올라가다–go to heaven
- 요절–premature death; dying young
- 운명하다–pass away
- 유물–memento; legacy
- 유언–will; dying wishes
- 유족–the bereaved; family of the deceased
- 작고하다–decease
- 잔해–remains
- 잠들다–pass away; rest
- 잡아가다–take; haul
- 장례–funeral
- 장사–funeral
- 장지–burial site
- 저승–afterlife; otherworld
- 저승길–journey toward death; last journey; road to Hades
- 저승사자–Grim Reaper; angel of death
- 조화–mourning flower
- 주검–dead body; corpse
- 지다–die
- 지방–A memorial tablet used for a memorial service or ancestral rite, made by writing on paper
- 지하–afterlife; heaven
- 참배–ancestor worship
- 타계–passing away; death
- 타계하다–pass away; die
- 피살–being killed; being murdered
- 화장–cremation
- 화장하다–cremate