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Back in the two thousands, only a third of Lee Jeong Woo's embalming students were women.
Now 60% of his classroom.
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There's a growing demand in conservative South Korea for women's bodies to be handled by other women.
30 year old Park Bo Ram is a funeral director in Seoul.
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Student Park Se Young, who volunteered to lie in a casket for her classmates to practice on her, said she would only want a female mortician to handle her body after her death.
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While women continued to make strides in once male dominated work, there is a lingering resistance against women doing the job.
21 year old Shin Ha Jin plans to work at a funeral home after graduation, but understands that not everyone is comfortable with the idea Sunday.
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South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the O.
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In 2019 there were 24.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to an o.
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That, coupled with the fact there's a growing concern surrounding suicide in women in their late teens and twenties, means requests for female funeral directors are likely to rise further.
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