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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
imageHalloween 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...

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

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