Home appliances coming with products combined with mutual funeral aids are not free giveaways

- Consumers might end up paying more if terminating contracts midway -

There are products combined with mutual funeral aid services in the market, where the sellers sell expensive home appliances such as TVs and refrigerators and mutual funeral aid services with a promise that they would return all the money paid for the mutual aids and the appliances upon maturity. However, a study by the Korea Consumer Agency (President: Lee Hee Sook) unveiled a structural problem in these combined products, which poses significant risk for consumer damages due to insufficient information.