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S. KOREA'S CREMATION RATE REACHES RECORD 52.6% IN 2005.
SEOUL, Oct 2 Asia Pulse - More than half of South Koreans who died in 2005 were cremated, pointing to the public's increasing preference for cremation over burial, a government report said on Monday.
The country's cremation rate stood at 52.6 per cent last year, up 3.42 percentage points from the previous year, according to the report compiled by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
It was the first time the cremation rate to exceeded 50 per cent. The figure, which stood at 10.7 per cent in 1970, has been rising at a fast pace since the 1990's, reaching 38.3 per cent in 2001.
The high cremation rate came five years after an amendment to a cremation bill was passed in 2000 to ...
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