The Intern Diaries: Korea’s Fake Funerals

What’s in store for South Korea’s future when its people are already feeling huge pressure?

Reporter Dean Cornish and Producer Georgina Davies on location in South Korea.

Video journalist Dean Cornish and Producer Georgina Davies on location in South Korea. Source: SBS Dateline

In the latest of our Intern Diaries podcasts, producer Georgina Davies talks to Ellijahna Victoria about filming Korea’s Fake Funerals with video journalist Dean Cornish.

She explains the modern stresses people there are under, driving up suicide rates, and leaving the younger generation hesitant about having their own children unless the culture changes.



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