Written by Kim, Yong-taek / Illustrated by Jun, Gab-bae

A story about a Korean funeral, presented by beautiful poems and illustrations.
This story vividly shows the procedure of the Korean traditional funeral from calling the name of the dead throwing his or her clothes onto a roof, to placing the body in a coffin, and to moving the coffin to a grave. Moreover, it presents the custom of local community to be with the funeral all together, explaining what funerals traditionally mean to Koreans. All the people in neighborhood gather together, crying, dancing and singing to pray for the dead soul for one day before carrying a coffin out of a house. In addition, the story well describes the funeral tradition of 'empty-coffin performance' that expresses bereaved family's deep grief and sorrow. This is the climax of the story where people regard death as a part of their own life and treat the dead in the same way as they treat the alive.