Today, a funeral home owner from Korea messaged me saying this was the best summer since he opened his business. This year, his funeral home has been fully booked every day; he used all his profits to install additional cremators, earning in a single transaction what he previously made in five years. People are jumping from buildings everywhere—just a week’s revenue is enough to afford a vacation to Jeju Island, and the backlog of bodies awaiting cremation extends to the end of the year. The day before yesterday, while walking the streets of Seoul, everyone suddenly stopped what they were doing and looked up at a person falling from the sky. He said he felt happy, as if his industry had entered a golden age.