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Podcast: The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast
Episode: Reading the Dead: What Korean Graves Tell Us
Description: Send us Fan MailWinter is cemetery season in Korea.With the grass dead, snakes gone, and sightlines open, this is when Koreaโs hillside cemeteries quietly reveal their stories. In this episode, Joe and Shawn talk about what they see every year while wandering through Korean burial grounds: traditional mounds and stone guardians, Christian symbols mixed with Confucian motifs, rare Western-style graves, pet burials, collective graves, and the occasional unsettling sign of vandalism.This isnโt a guide to death rituals. Itโs an exploration of how memory, belief, class, and modern pressu...