4 Bizarre Stories about Memorial Rituals (제사 Jesa) - Tales from Korea Ep.11

In Korea, your responsibility to your dead family member extents past the funeral. You're called to offer memorial rituals (제사 Jesa) on several occasions a year, which have inevitably taken on more spiritual aspect, that the souls of the dead are present at the rituals.
This is the last episode of the 4 part series in which we take a look at how death is understood in the spiritual sense and ritualized in Korea. If you missed the previous episode, do check them out - 1st episode was about Korean Grim Reapers ( • 6 Stories about Korean... ), 2nd about funerals( • 5 Bizarre Stories abou... ), and 3rd about the journey down to the Underworld( • 4 Bizarre Stories abou... ).
Intro 0:13
Origin of the memorial rituals 0:39
제사(Jesa), 차례(Charae), 성묘(Sungmyo) 1:36
Spiritual (or superstitious) side of Jesa 2:39
Process of Jesa 3:59
Memorial rituals in modern Korea 5:59
Story 1 'Hungry Grandma' 7:46
Story 2 'the Lady Forgotten' 12:12
Story 3 'WTF, uncle?' 13:41
Story 4 'Brothers' 17:50
Outro 21:30
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[@jiajia82]

I had a dream like that as a preteen when I lived inside my paternal grandpa's old house. In my dream, my grandpa asked me to get him his favorite fruit pound cake. After I woke up, I told the adults of the family that grandpa was asking for fruit cakes, then we realized we missed his 90th birthday. When I moved to live with my maternal grandma, I never had dreams like that again.

[@icingcake]

Well wow that’s a lot of ritual…. Actually that’s a lot of work 😅 good to know and remember but I’m actually glad not to have to do that 😬. That’s cool that everyone shares the food after though.

[@talesfromkorea5179]

It does provide an occasion for family to gather and bond... but it is a lot of work, especially expected of the women in the family to prepare all the food...

[@icingcake]

@@talesfromkorea5179 Yes! I heard that on the Korean Pizza Club channel 😅! I agree - that’s a LOT of work - Korean food seems really time-intensive