The purpose of this study was to examine into kinds for the administrative processing of grave research on "The law regarding the funeral service" in Korea
There were objects of that the groping of right grave research process for, an indiscreet research with the present weakening of family relations and indifference of descendants, for an indiscreet research, and an unknown person's grave on the national land development
The results of the study were as follows
First, the background and the purpose of reinterment were described in the introduction.
Second, the understanding of reinterment through the definition in terms of manners and law, legal changes, and the relevant foreign regulations was described.
Third, the reasons, the kinds, the methods, the authorities concerned, and estimating the cost of reinterment were described.
Fourth, the concrete correlation among illegal graves established before the enforcement of the law for funeral service as the adminstration of interment by its kind, the graves having owners or relatives, the graves established without approval, the graves whose expiration dates have ended, the simultaneous census of graves, the graves without surviving relatives, and the graves that are historically worthy of being preserved was pointed out and analysed.
Fifth, in conclusion, the principled understanding of reinterment, and the practical standard of the variables were intended to be suggested through analyses.