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Halloween without kids and Christmas without Christ take hold in Asia, with uniquely local twists

  • Written by Linus Owens, Associate Professor of Sociology, Middlebury
Halloween without kids and Christmas without Christ take hold in Asia, with uniquely local twistsHalloween in Korea is celebrated primarily by young adults.AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

Halloween is supposed to be fun, a night to put on costumes and publicly celebrate with friends and strangers. Its traditional past as a festival for the dead lives on mainly in spooky decorations and scary movies.

But Halloween horror became all too real this year when...

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