but malls never cater to them," Singgam told This Week in Asia. Unlike Christmas, with its gift-giving tradition, social ...

It has been a year since Park Young-soo lost her only son in a Halloween weekend crowd crush that killed 159 people in Seoul but she is not yet able to bring herself to open the door to his room.

And it has happened again, during Halloween festivities in the South Korean capital Seoul, where a crowd pushed forward, the narrow street they were on acting as a vice, leaving more than 140 ...