A Lonely End for South Koreans Who Cannot Afford to Live, or Die (Published 2015)Park Jin-ok paying a silent tribute in front of a refrigerator at a morgue where an unclaimed body was kept.Credit...Jean Chung for The New York Times SEOUL, South Korea — In a culture in which funerals are often lavish three-day affairs with hundreds of guests, the recent funeral for Song In-sik was modest at best. It had only one guest — an activist who volunteered to hold a ritual for a person
