To answer for those who may be wondering, Halloween is not celebrated in Korea. However, since there are so many foreign English teachers here the schools often host halloween parties for the kids to give them the whole "western culture experience". Kids will dress up, play games, and act out to "trick or treat" so they get to experience the holiday a bit. As for the foreigners, we often have our own halloween party and dress up on our own, which can certainly puzzle the Koreans over why we celebrate such a crazy holiday of dressing up in costumes. I was able to celebrate halloween with parties for the kids, a masquerade party on Friday, a halloween party on Saturday, and then a group of us foreigners watched scary movies at a DVD bong Sunday night.
So then I'm sure the next question is -- what is a DVD bong? Well, they have several "bongs" in Korea and they're simply public sources for entertainment. They have DVD bongs where you basically rent a movie to watch and then you watch it at the building in a mini theater with friends. The more people you have, the cheaper the total cost.
Another option is a PC bong -- where you can use a public computer, the internet, and play some video games. I have yet to experience this one. The other is a Noreabong, where you pay for a room and sing karoke with a group of friends. The other is a jinjubong, which is basically a public spa that you can go to... sometimes when traveling around people will simply stay the night at one of these since you can shower, relax, change clothes, refresh, and stay there as long as its open -- and its much cheaper than a hotel.
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