In a photo taken on September 24, 2025, an instructor touches up a mannequin dressed in traditional Korean funeral cloth into a coffin during a funeral administration class at the Busan Institute of Science and Technology in Busan. Growing numbers are finding work in the business of death in the face of massive demographic change in South Korea, where birth rates are among the lowest on earth and almost half the population is aged 50 or older. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) / To go with 'SKOREA-DEATH-DEMOGRAPHICS-FUNERALS,FOCUS' by Claire LEE (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

In a photo taken on September 24, 2025, students drape a mannequin in traditional Korean funeral cloth during a funeral administration class at the Busan Institute of Science and Technology in Busan. Growing numbers are finding work in the business of death in the face of massive demographic change in South Korea, where birth rates are among the lowest on earth and almost half the population is aged 50 or older. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) / To go with 'SKOREA-DEATH-DEMOGRAPHICS-FUNERALS,FOCUS' by Claire LEE (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

In a photo taken on September 24, 2025, a funeral altar set up in a classroom during a funeral administration class at the Busan Institute of Science and Technology in Busan. Growing numbers are finding work in the business of death in the face of massive demographic change in South Korea, where birth rates are among the lowest on earth and almost half the population is aged 50 or older. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) / To go with 'SKOREA-DEATH-DEMOGRAPHICS-FUNERALS,FOCUS' by Claire LEE (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

In a photo taken on September 24, 2025, students drape a mannequin in traditional Korean funeral cloth during a funeral administration class at the Busan Institute of Science and Technology in Busan. Growing numbers are finding work in the business of death in the face of massive demographic change in South Korea, where birth rates are among the lowest on earth and almost half the population is aged 50 or older. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) / To go with 'SKOREA-DEATH-DEMOGRAPHICS-FUNERALS,FOCUS' by Claire LEE (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

In a photo taken on September 24, 2025, Im Sae-jin, a funeral administration student, speaks during an interview with AFP before his class at the Busan Institute of Science and Technology in Busan. Growing numbers are finding work in the business of death in the face of massive demographic change in South Korea, where birth rates are among the lowest on earth and almost half the population is aged 50 or older. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) / To go with 'SKOREA-DEATH-DEMOGRAPHICS-FUNERALS,FOCUS' by Claire LEE (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

In a photo taken on September 24, 2025, students lower a mannequin dressed in traditional Korean funeral cloth into a coffin during a funeral administration class at the Busan Institute of Science and Technology in Busan. Growing numbers are finding work in the business of death in the face of massive demographic change in South Korea, where birth rates are among the lowest on earth and almost half the population is aged 50 or older. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) / To go with 'SKOREA-DEATH-DEMOGRAPHICS-FUNERALS,FOCUS' by Claire LEE (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

This photograph shows the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution (Great Gallery of Evolution) building, part of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), in Paris on November 1, 2025. (Photo by Guillaume BAPTISTE / AFP) (Photo by GUILLAUME BAPTISTE/AFP via Getty Images)

This photograph shows the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution (Great Gallery of Evolution) building, part of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), in Paris on November 1, 2025. (Photo by Guillaume BAPTISTE / AFP) (Photo by GUILLAUME BAPTISTE/AFP via Getty Images)