'Mock funerals' seek to ease life's stresses

Critics: They are nothing but moneymaking businesses

In a dimly lit room, people dressed in white burial shrouds slowly sit up inside the wooden coffins where they had been lying, enclosed, for 10 minutes. Blinking, pale and solemn, they say they thought about their past and their loved ones while inside the coffins and vow to live better lives now.

"I gained courage to live a new life," Wang Yong-yo, 67, said, sobbing. "I thought about my dead mother. ... She was really beautiful when she was young and was very generous."