I've heard this is also done in China - the picture below is just a visual with only a tenuous relationship to this subject. It is actually of a traditional Chinese wedding. There appears to be a difference in how this practice is used in Korea and China. It seems that in Korea, the focus is on the deceased female getting a husband. In China, the focus is on the deceased male getting a wife.
Here is a story about a ghost wedding in China from February of this year.
Chinese 'ghost bride' sold twice into marriage
A woman in China was sold twice into marriage within days, despite both she and the grooms being dead.
The woman, from China's Hebei Province, near Beijing, died over the Lunar Year holiday, according to the Global Times.
But her family decided to sell her for a "ghost marriage", a superstition that sees dead bachelors married off so they can wander the afterlife together.
Despite Mao Tse Tung attempting to stamp out the practice after he and the Communist Party came to power in 1949, the black market for 'corpse brides' continues to thrive today.
In this case, the family sold their dead daughter, receiving 35,000 yuan (£3,500), where a spirit wedding was conducted. The two were then buried together.
Grave robbers however dug up the brides body, and were caught by police marrying her off to a dead bachelor in another town for 30,000 yuan, it was claimed.
In 2007, a man was arrested after killing and then selling six women, claiming that "killing people and selling their bodies is less work than stealing them from graves."
Here is a similar story from 2009.
Teenage girl dug up to be 'corpse bride'
Five people have been arrested in China for digging up the corpse of a young woman to be a "ghost bride" for a man killed in a car crash.
The suspects included a grieving father who allegedly paid his four accomplices around £2,700 pounds to find a female to be his son's companion in the afterlife.
The men were caught after unearthing the remains of a teenage girl who had poisoned herself after failing her university entrance exams last year, a newspaper in Xianyang in China's Shaanxi province reported.
In rural China, superstitious villagers have for centuries sought out the bodies of recently deceased woman to be ghost brides for young men who die single.
Marriage ceremonies are conducted for the two corpses, and the bride is placed in the same grave as her husband.
Under Chairman Mao's rule, officials made strenuous efforts to stamp out the ghoulish practice but it has since resurfaced in some rural areas.
Last year, a gang in southern China was arrested for strangling young women to sell as ghost brides when the supply of female corpses in their area ran short.
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