Koreans React To Halloween In US For The First Time | 𝙊𝙎𝙎𝘾

[@Maki-00]

I used to work at an international school and one year, there were a bunch of Korean students celebrating their first Halloween. A lot of people dressed up that day and some of the Korean students came in wearing their super scary monster costumes, but when they met each other, the monsters politely bowed to one another. It was so freaking cute! 😅

[@barbsjjk]

That sounds so cutee😭💛

[@eclipsereviews4678]

awe i bet that was cool to see

[@maylto8407]

Oh so cute!

[@mollyapteros]

Giving out candy on Halloween is always a lot of fun because the kids are super cute and generally very polite. Some places do 'trunk or treat', where people park their cars and put candy in the open trunk so kids can go from car to car.

[@xylondacollins]

I did that at my church and it was a fun experience! After the trunk n treat. I get lots of candies 😃.

[@sspiker]

Right.. even though they live in apartments in Seoul they can do a trunk or treat or use the communal spaces for the events. @OSSC If it ever caught on.

[@persephonebasilissa5109]

My brother participated in a Trunk or Treat last year. My elderly mom sewed a costume for his car. The open trunk was a giant mouth with massive teeth!

[@riyabiya4]

wow I've genuinely never heard of this despite living in the u.s. my whole life but that sounds fun too!

[@Multi-Stan_Scorpio]

Yeah I actually love the ones who do trunk or treat where im from they also do best car decoration competition, gift card give aways for the adults and bikes/ toys for the kids and usually if you tell a certain trunk you will vote for them they bribe you with extra candy even the adults walk around with pockets full for voting

[@SimplySelicia]

Can confirm that Halloween costumes at work is real whether you have a regular office job, work with kids, etc. I always thought Halloween at school was fun because sometimes there would be special themed lunches and we could wear costumes to school. I work at a library and we have a costume contest among departments and staff. This year our department is doing Studio Ghibli characters as a team, and we've been creating them together for weeks. Our department deals with a technology and creative stuff so we have access to sewing machines, etc. We're even building a cat bus photo op this year. This week, kids will come in costume for a special Halloween themed storytimes and then they walk around the whole library as a Halloween Parade to show of their costumes and trick or treat at the different service desks. Compared to my childhood, I think that trick or treating has changed a lot. It also depends on your neighborhood as well. We used to walk all over our neighborhood when I was growing up. Over the years some areas aren't as safe/community engaged and the weather got consistently colder over the years so I think families like the option of going to a few special events where they aren't walking super far. A lot of businesses will also offer special food deals for kids that wear their costume etc. Halloween to Thanksgiving has always been my favorite time of year.

[@peko7446]

Your workplace sound fun during Halloween.

[@pascallaflamme3688]

You're right it did change a lot over the year. Now towns are also holding special events for everyone's families. Like my town is gonna hold it on the 29, 20 and 31 people are gonna walk the street. Also as soon as the light shut down, people consider that there is no more candy in that house. Young adults often have an after party with friends or go clubing for Halloween after giving the candy to the kid. it used to be really big before the pandemic. Or it's the perfect night to play Murder Mystery.

[@magikenzee]

that's cool I met a girl at a convention that made a moving Haku dragon from pizza boxes she said the hard part was eating all the pizza

[@SimplySelicia]

@@magikenzee that's pretty amazing 🤣

[@SimplySelicia]

@@peko7446 it is! We just really benefit of just being in a service position where we get to create special events and really have fun with it for the community

[@snoozeyoongi]

Even as adults a lot of us still like to dress up in costumes. Bars and clubs have events, work places you can sometimes dress up like you mentioned, or people hold their own costume parties. Some restaurants even offer a discount if you show up in a costume. It’s my fav holiday

[@noahr607]

You should show them haunted houses or corn mazes! 🎃

[@persephonebasilissa5109]

Oh, we have a large haunted corn maze here in Washington State, USA. Some people love it! They also have corn cannons for the adults.

[@persephonebasilissa5109]

And pumpkin chunkin!

[@rachelk4805]

Right? Where are the pumkin patches and the corn mazes, where are the haunted houses and parties?

[@eclipsereviews4678]

@@persephonebasilissa5109 the cannons for the adults part made me laugh 😂

[@Navesblue]

YES!!!

[@hargibson18]

Some of my favorite childhood memories are Halloween related, going trick or treating with my friends, going to Halloween parties, carving pumpkins, picking costumes. Adults definitely have their own Halloween parties too!!

[@mxtthew7498]

Regarding Donghyun’s question about when they stop giving out candy, usually houses turn their lights on-if the light is on that means they have candy to give out, once it’s turned off there’s no more candy!

[@carsonyates639]

Halloween is the BEST. People really get into it. When I was growing up, my parents would have giant Halloween parties with like 200 people at our farm. My birthday is the 29th so I always grew up associating Halloween with my birthday. I love costumes that involve body paint! I’m so happy Halloween is part of my culture.

[@foncywoolsocksiii923]

Aww, that's awesome! The 29th is mine and my spouse's 22nd anniversary, but Halloween is our wedding anniversary (13yrs). Happy Birthday!!

[@Fifi-jb3yx]

mine is the 29th too! happy birthday to us all!! best bday hands down i love october

[@niecey918]

My son is the 29th as well. The nurses at the hospital dressed all the babies, swaddled with a cotton ball on the back and little bunny ears on their little hats.

[@Navesblue]

You sound like you had a kickers childhood. Just saying.

[@wanderersmusing5830]

We also don’t have a Halloween culture in the Philippines but I remember when I was young, I and my cousins were invited to go trick and treating in a predominantly Western neighborhood and almost all of the houses had elaborate Halloween decors and tons of candy and chocolates for the kids. We only went once (I was around 8 or 9 years old) but two decades later, it’s still my fondest memory.

[@gt1man931]

As soon as I saw the horrible tragedy on the news I thought of you and now many of us are worried for you. Our hearts and thoughts are with the OSSC team and the kind people of South Korea. We hope you are all safe.

[@sierra5708]

I absolutely loved to hear how they feel about Halloween for kids in the states! You should show them how crazy the adults/young adults party! I’ve seen some of the coolest costumes made by rowdy teens lol

[@zelrius8714]

Halloween is a must-have for kids growing up in the US. I'm not a kid anymore (teenager) but I still go trick or treating and I don't care lol I'm getting them candies. We also go to exclusively rich neighborhoods or neighborhoods that seem to have a lot of people, that's how you know they give a lot of candy and good ones.

[@thressawatts4501]

I’m Canadian and most of us don’t stop trick or treating until grade 12 either lmaoo. We also do the rich neighbourhood thing, but I live in a small town so we don’t have “rich neighbourhood’s”, instead we remember the houses that do the super sized chocolate bars or give out cans of pop hahaha.

[@zelrius8714]

@@thressawatts4501 ooo I see. Good to know people do the same thing haha. Yea I live near a big city and we even drive a bit farther if we have to, to find the good neighborhoods but usually the areas around us already give out plenty of candy. But like I said, we don’t mind driving a bit further and we usually find more variety of candy that way as well and not the same types of candies 🤣

[@16poetisa]

I even did trick-or-treating in college lol

[@LA_HA]

There's no rule that says trick or treating is just for elementary school kids. Halloween is like Christmas. It's for kids from 1 to 92. As long as you dress up and are polite about it, most people don't care. Especially if you dress up as something funny, interesting, or clever. Or, if you're embarrassed, you can always charge an escort fee of candy when you take the kids trick or treating. Or, in my case when the nieces and nephews got to big to escort, charge a Get Back In The House fee of candy. haha

[@LisaLearmont95]

I'm from the UK and work in a convenience store, every year we decorate the store for Halloween and staff dress up in whatever costume we like, it's so much fun for our young customers!

[@eliseavb]

I think Halloween is the most community-oriented time of year in the U.S., personally. That’s why it’s my favorite holiday. I love the haunted houses, scary movies, carving pumpkins, corn mazes, and all that stuff. I don’t drink so I don’t go to any ragers lol. But now that I’m an adult I also love how much everybody does to make it fun for kids. There’s something very sweet to me about this group effort to give them fun, even if we don’t know everyone that comes to our door on Halloween night. Also, I think they’re totally right that this time of year is really a blast here. The summer ends, and after that you get fall festivals and Halloween, Thanksgiving followed by Thanksgiving leftovers, then winter with the snow and lights and various holidays, then New Years. Valentine’s is shortly after that. Easily the best 5 months out of the year.

[@soobrae]

dont forget about halloween at school...it was so fun seeing very one dressed up at school... in the elementary i went to we did a little parade with the kids form k-6th and from middle school to high school we just dressed up and at lunch we would see who had the best costume while playing music it was soooo fun

[@Shaw2184]

Also malls. Kids can go store to store and in the past costume contests

[@kissofvinyls]

yess halloween and Christmas break at school is top tier!

[@AllisonWond3rland]

Halloween in US is verh much a month long celebration and a lot of work cultures (regardless if office/school/retail) allow for people to come to work usually day of Halloween to dress up in costumes. Usually weekend of Halloween or weekend before Halloweens, there are bar parties or house parties for adults celebrating and drinking just like how movies show. And then day of Halloween, is day to take kids walking before going out late in the night party.

[@Falconer1128]

I love you guy's reactions especially to this. Most people in the States love Halloween. It's tied with Christmas as my favorite holiday. And for sure, the parents have as much fun or more than the kids do. We have one street here in a suburb of Boise, Idaho where every house on the street is decked out with elaborate Halloween decorations and every house on the street gives out full sized candy bars to the kids. Literally hundreds of costumed people, kids and adults, walk the street so kids can trick or treat the houses. There are usually food trucks and Carmel apple vendors. There is also usually some street performers. A vampire juggling, once there was a demon breathing fire, some people in elaborate costumes with stilts so they appear to be giant. They've closed the street for Halloween the passed two years because of Covid. But they are reopening it this year! Also, we have an old penitentiary here that is open for tours and it's said to be haunted. On Halloween you can trick or treat there and a spook alley is set up inside the prison. And every year there is a zombie flash dance mob that happens in the commons of the prison. Near a hundred zombies start dancing to Micheal Jackson's Thriller. Its an amazing experience.

[@louisejohnson6057]

I live in Canada, and some store employees, and bus drivers, waitstaff at some restaurants, etc, will dress up in costumes. It's quite common. Costume parties for adults are also common here. Some of the best parties that I've been to have been to have been in honour of Halloween.

[@sospookie]

I love giving out candy on Halloween. One of my favorite places as a kid though was this owner of an old bookstore. She gave us candy and let us pick a free book.

[@vcwloves9864]

Halloween in some parts of Germany is a thing, especially in places near military bases. I'm an expat, and get tons of American AND German kids at my house every year. It's nice to see!

[@bonnielovely]

If you work an office job, it's pretty common to be able to dress up on Halloween. It's also common for kids in elementary, middle, and high school to be able to dress up, but with restrictions. Like sometimes schools won't let children wear scary costumes, or they will set the costumes to be a specific theme so that it's not inappropriate. When I worked service jobs, as a waiter, etc. it was less common to be able to dress up, especially if your job has safety restrictions involving the uniform. It is also common for kids to go to different neighborhoods, or neighborhoods with larger houses to get "better" candy. Some people go all out, they will make entire haunted houses in their garage or their yard, it's like everyone takes part in this huge festival in some way or another. Not to mention all the parties during Halloween time. It's very common for people to have Halloween parties during anytime in October where EVERYONE will dress up. I would love to see y'all react to some of the other Halloween traditions like bobbing for apples, office costume parties, and people making haunted houses. A lot of towns have entire festivals or fairs during Halloween as well.

[@OGieDaOGre]

This episode made me realize that in the US we do have some aspects of our culture to be proud of. Thanks guys!

[@Navesblue]

27 year old American here. Born and raised here my whole life and can confirm that Halloween is just as big as Christmas (Maybe even more so since it's non-denominational. Literally anyone and everyone can participate). And keep in mind that every tradition starts somewhere in small ways. So if you say you wish you had it in Korea, then just be the ones to start it locally in Korea. Other countries also celebrate Halloween outside of America. So I say GO FOR IT! The key is just annual consistency. Start it as a local neighborhood thing for families to bring their children to and film it for us to see on here! We'd love to see it! It can easily grow from there. It just takes planting the seed and watering it consistently every year. On another note, future Halloween themed videos that you should totally do in the future is having the cast react to the most impressive Halloween costumes (Heidi Klum alone is jaw dropping), Jack-O-Lantern carving contests, and Halloween pranks (another great staple of the holiday).

[@riyabiya4]

by the way usually families walk house to house and stay within reasonable walking distance from home! they normally don't travel in cars unless maybe they're going to some other neighborhood like with friends or something

[@TheMBG121]

Usually we don't accept kid trick or treaters really late at night (mayne 6 pm - 9 pm?). The general rule about trick or treating at night is ~ if you see a house with its porch lights on, then they are giving candy. If the house doesn't have any outside lights on, they are either out of candy OR not participating this year. And yes parents drive kids around to each neighborhood lol. In the suburbs and small towns its impossible to walk. But in each neighborhood development its normal to walk to each house.

[@honguito8]

I live in Peru, and here we celebrate the day of criolla music (a genre of traditional Peruvian music from the 1920) the same day as halloween, so when I was young my mom would only let me dress as a tapada limeña (women from the virreinato that used to cover their head with a veil) and we used to sing criolla songs and eat candy that way we combined both traditions in a fun way! But here usually older people celebrate the day of criolla music and listen to songs and eat traditional Peruvian food and children and young adults celebrate halloween 👻

[@crystalscolza1663]

Praying for the families of the 150 people crushed to death in the street party Halloween crowd in Korea :(

[@Natural_20]

I dare say Adults probably love Halloween more. While kids Trick or Treat, we like to have costume parties together with other friends.

[@uwotm8]

Halloween is originally from the Gaelic festival of Samhain dating back over 2,000 years. Turnips would be carved instead of Pumpkins to ward off evil spirits. Food would also be placed at the door as offerings to appease the spirits. From the 16th century, people would dress up as these spirits and perform acts to instead receive the food that was being offered to the spirits. Irish and Scottish immigrants had started to spread the tradition in the United States as early as the 1840s but only became popular by the 1930s. It has continued to gain popularity since then and has now spread all over the world.

[@foncywoolsocksiii923]

It depends on where you live in the states. I live in NC and the entire month of October, we have fall and cider festivals to bring in autumn. There's also a lot of haunted houses, hayrides and attractions. It's like a huge party for kids and adults! And it all culminates on Halloween night. That's my wedding anniversary btw! You should look up the history of trick or treating, Halloween and Samhain, it's fascinating!

[@susank.4945]

I worked at a small public school outside of Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do in 2015-16 and I asked if we could have Halloween, the principal said yes. They had a door decorating contest (via Pinterest) , costumes and and "Trick-or-treating" around the school during Halloween.... they took the idea and ran with it...there were other events afterward of like a scavenger hunt with kids running everywhere... it was amazing...I hope they still do these things. She was the most open principal I couldn't speak to as we didn't speak each other's languages well, but we were both artists, and her door was always open to me. I wish I had stayed there longer sometimes.

[@brendaculbertson8496]

Yes, it’s real. At my job, we have a Halloween party and prizes for the best costumes.👻🎃

[@kimikolee7313]

In America, September through December is often noted to be the time we gain a lot of weight. Between starting school, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years, it’s a non stop party 🎉 Also, costumes at work and school are pretty common! I was a jellyfish for my senior year of high school (I taped streams of ribbon to an open umbrella). I won my school’s costume contest for “most creative”

[@corgisrule21]

Yes, most of us can wear costumes to work for Halloween if we want to. I mostly have worked at hospitals and we are allowed to do it there as well

[@madic15]

I work in a factory and my costume options are limited because of the machinery I work around but even so my coworkers and I try to dress up and we go from station to station trading candy. I was a bumble bee :)

[@jtothac5364]

Cha Cha is the cutest human being on the entire planet

[@Kaneki6386]

Yes, Halloween costumes at work is very real!

[@aceofkpop1243]

There's definitely the adult side of Halloween where we dress up and go out to bars/parties/etc. 😂 but most of that is the weekend before Halloween, while the day of is mostly for the kids 🥰 I've seen many different types of work places let people dress up, or at least wear some type of festive accessory! Lots of places will put up window decorations and sometimes items on desks throughout October 😊🎃

[@esverker7018]

Halloween is the best time of year! This video focused on a lot of the cute, family-friendly halloween, but I think you missed showing the truly freaky parts. A lot of the decor is genuinely gory and scary. I remember being in a halloween shop and running into a perfect lifelike zombie statue cut off at the waist, crawling on the ground with his intestines trailing out behind him. Not to mention all the haunted houses designed to scare the crap outta people. Great stuff.

[@lilykep]

I love giving out candy on Halloween. The kids are ADORABLE in their little costumes and they're so excited to get candy.

[@ttlee]

You should have another video about Halloween in the US. Some homes get pretty competitive and neighbors will try to out decorate each other. Before the 31st we would sometimes go driving around certain neighborhoods to view the homes. You could also look into small candy vs large. I remember taking my nieces and nephews to certain neighborhoods because they gave out the full size candy. 😂 Another thing I forgot to mention is that door lights on mean that the house is still giving out candy. If there’s no light then they ran out or aren’t participating in the holiday. As for dressing up for work, I can definitely agree that it’s a thing. I used to work for a government job and we had a costume contest. I dressed up as an inflatable triceratops one year 😂. I was top 3 for best dress for that competition.

[@Rhov9]

The light!!! That’s such a good point that I always forget to make when explaining Halloween rules (because it’s not a written thing). But yes - if you’re walking in your neighborhood you would pass by houses with no decorations/no front light on because that’s how you know people aren’t participating. Either they don’t want to (which is totally fine!) or they are probably out celebrating themselves. The hours for trick or treating are also set by your local county - so there’s typically a Halloween curfew (that some ignore) of between 6pm - 8pm here in NJ where I am, but other areas may be different. So,no you can’t trick or treat until Midnight. You’d probably get into trouble 😂. But most people seem to keep the candy bowl by the door until around 9pm (as a rough estimate)

[@Scarshadow666]

Aw hell yeah! Halloween is one of the best holidays! ^^ Grew up where some houses would go all out with decorations, such as animatronics, strobe lights, people dressed up as Leatherface or Jason Voorhees to jump-scare teens, the works! Also grew up in the ye olde Blockbuster and Hollywood Video era and can remember seeing a lot of old horrr VHS and DVD cases, but not seeing the actual movies yet as I was too young at the time (for anyone that's a big fan of horror shlock, I definitely recommend people check out the Jack Frost movies, everything from it's ancient Photoshopped DVD cover to it😮acting, is absolutely legendary in a so-bad-it's-good way).

[@divinaizzard6856]

In the United States, companies and stores will allow employees to wear Halloween costumes while they work.

[@CherryWanders]

BTW - it's not really late at all for those kids. Probably between 4 - 7pm. In October it gets dark really, really early here. Especially on the east coast.

[@CherryWanders]

Also worth noting that handing out handmade treats is frowned upon for safety reasons. Parents check their children's trick or treat bags for possibly tainted candies (they also take what they like out). Suspicious treats are thrown away.

[@TheRhuen]

Halloween parties aren't as big as they used to be, although for rural areas they mix the themes in with "harvest" parties (thank superstitious types for that) as Thanksgiving and Halloween are both sort of harvest time holidays just with different origins. So we see hayrides, pumpkin walks, Jack O Lantern carving contests, corn mazes, haunted house walk throughs *should show them that*, zombie corn field venues have become popular as well, and of course the pranks and excuse to decorate your yard.

[@QotED]

In the US, if you gave kids a math quiz for Halloween someone will throw raw eggs at your house. Halloween is a mix of fun and petty vandalism.

[@kimleemoon]

Or they would tp (toilet paper) the house😂

[@QotED]

@@kimleemoonOne of them is definitely happening. Maybe both.

[@alainawashington3722]

If they’re shocked by this for Halloween, they should see what we do for Christmas.

[@kibagichi]

Workers wearing costumes to work is real. Not every place does it but a lot do.

[@pinkyjones7398]

When youre a kid you dress up and get candy. When youre a grown up you dress up and give candy. Regardless you have fun!

[@TheLibraBookworm]

Halloween can last as long as the early morning hours of the next day. Kids know which houses are still offering candy if the house has decorations and their porch light is still on. If a house has decorations but the porch light is off that means the house is done for the night either cause it's too late or they ran out of candy

[@jeffreyfox3248]

Thank you all for your reactions. You made me smile so big listening to you 😁

[@michaelmunno]

hello, love you all. please let us know you are ok. My heart goes out to you all. the Halloween stampede and loss of so many lives is so tragic. I am very sad. Please take care and stay safe. please either reply or post a video to let us all know you and your family and friends are all ok. thank you! love you from NJ, USA.

[@thomasschmidt1836]

Generally, parents take their kids around their neighborhood after dinner and back home no later than 8pm. Parents will wait out in front of the house, unless the kids are really small, then let the kids walk up to the house and ring the doorbell. Parents sometimes dress up while walking around with their kids or even when they stay home to hand out the candy. In rural areas, a local school or shopping mall is easier for everyone to participate as it could be several hundred meters between each house or more. At shopping malls the kids would go from store to store instead of house to house. Office parties do sometimes have a dress up day, but it really depends on the business or workplace.

[@yogabear7140]

It is interesting to see how other cultures perceive American holidays. Halloween is my favorite because it’s such a happy and fun time of the year and I’m glad they got to see that 😊

[@dylanmccat5347]

Halloween isn’t an American holiday , it’s Irish and most Halloween traditions are Irish , dressing up , trick or treating , Jack o lanterns

[@yogabear7140]

@@dylanmccat5347 yeah, I know that it didn’t originate in America and a lot of the modern traditions are variations of those of the past. By calling it an American holiday I was referring to the way it’s celebrated now, the modern and Americanized interpretation of Halloween. It’s fascinating to see what’s changed, what’s similar, and how other cultures enjoy it ☺️

[@coconut_sparkling_water]

yes, people do wear their costumes to work (unless it's not allowed) and I've also seen many videos of people in the military wearing their costumes! there are people of all ages who trick or treat, not just kids, but lots of them are kids and teenagers, or entire families. I've sometimes seen old couples trick or treating, very adorable!

[@Roccokitty]

Living with in Northern Minnesota it’s a hit or miss when it comes to Halloween some years the temp is decent and can walk around with just a costume over a light jacket but majority of time the temps are on the colder side and also not that unusual to have snow on the ground and you couldn’t see the costume under the winter jackets! We live in the country so do not get the kids coming to our house for treats but we would drive our kids into town and let them do one block of door to door then head back towards home where our community had a Halloween party with assorted kids games and the biggest being the cake walk! Then it was back home again. Then of course the traditional empty out the candy bucket (or in our case the pillow case!) and spread out the goodies and let the trading begin! And of course you can not forget the daddy or mommy tax!

[@Rytonic69]

Whenever I get my own house, I want to give full size candy out. Everyone else does the little bite size one, but I wanna be the full size candy bar house

[@madit9921]

Omg This was a “TREAT” to watch! Halloween really is a fun day/night for both the kids, big kids & even the adults with ADULT money! Seeing their reaction to Halloween I’m now excited to see how they’ll react when it comes to Christmas States side. You think the Halloween yard decor was impressive, Christmas is a whole other level! ❤🎉

[@karaaudrey]

I'm in Canada, not the states, but for us, we dress up at our offices. When we were in person we would have costume parties and contests, I would decorate my department, we would have candy, and do pumpkin carving. Even now that we're virtual we still dress up, do fun makeup instead of full costumes, and use fun virtual backgrounds, my team still does a pumpkin carving contest. I love it. I miss living in the suburbs and decorating my house, having kids come by to trick or treat. My Dad and I would make the entire yard a graveyard, and we would have Halloween movies playing on a projector and other decorations. I loved sitting outside by a fire waiting for kids to come by and giving out candy.

[@codybrown3326]

There was a time when older kids trigger treating was frowned upon, but I think now as a society we have decided we prefer teens trick-or-treating to the other troublesome things they could be doing.

[@Nani-0613]

People dress up at home, work, school for Halloween even if they don't they still give out candy for kids amd stuff and adults or teens usually have Halloween parties or something

[@dizzlebizzle8424]

americans are individualistic but they are also the most charitable by far. none of the countries that make anywhere near as much as americans do give as much of their wealth away to charity. it's a strange situation where we have the greediest people and the kindest too.

[@bryanburton6087]

Chacha giving a math quiz for candy? That's a great way to get your trees toilet papered! Loving these videos. Thanks for posting them.

[@Samantha_Lee]

About the late night thing, there is a designated time for trick or treating! It differs based on the city, in my city it's from 6-8 pm so everyone knows what time the kids will be coming around.

[@metalstephie79]

"Trick or treat! Smell my feet! Give me something good to eat. And if you don't, I won't be sad, I'll just make you wish you had."

[@jennah94]

Finland doesn't really have this trick-or-treat during Halloween, but this trick-or-treat thing is really similar to what we have during Easter. Children dress up as witches, bunnies or whatever is related to Easter and then they have decorated branches of a willow tree when the tree has those fuzzy thingies. Then they go door to door and sing a song, they give the branch to the house and they get a payment. Usually candy, but I remember getting also money or fruits as a kid if the house was not prepared with any candy : D

[@susansheldon2033]

I sounds like most Korean celebrations are variations of "we get together and drink."

[@ningowo2306]

Halloween is really the kick start to the holiday season. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanuka, Christmas, and then finally New Years and it really kinda ends with easter.

[@emilygonzales8782]

currently at work. Today is Halloween. I am in 50's costume. :)

[@LeahKMT]

I dress up every Halloween to hand out candy to the kids, it's honestly one of the highlights of my year.

[@cat_lover007]

Nostalgic and fun 🎃🎃🏵🏵🏵

[@Laxhoop]

You get candy as a reward for dressing up. Kids who refuse to dress up as anything, but still go to get candy are usually given a side eye, and given the candy begrudgingly.

[@SKinSKorea]

When I worked at a suburban mall in the 80s, we would wear costumes and hand out candy (usually between 4-6). Everyone wanted to work on Halloween. A lot of people really go all out and decorate their homes. I’m glad it’s slowly coming to Korea. I teach at a University, but I try to include Halloween when possible!

[@Rhov9]

Honestly, I loved working holidays at retail because that’s when you’d have the MOST people on staff and it was nice having potlucks. Don’t get me wrong, the rush sucks no matter what - but being able to tap in one team in shifts makes it WAY easier to handle.

[@elektralyte1]

The way you let people know that you’re done handing out candy at your house is to turn off your porch light and the lights in front of your house. People won’t go up to a dark house usually.

[@bobbyhillbuuhuuu]

Y’all should’ve shown them haunted attractions/mazes in the states because those things pop off during October.There’s so much more than just dressing up and getting free candy.

[@i_am_kanani]

I would also show the haunted corn mazes and other halloween activities. there are so many more activities besides just trick or treating. Also I can confirm we wear costumes to the office. Some offices even have halloween parties.

[@adeleennis2255]

My town had The Night of Fun on Halloween. While little kids trick or treated, those of us in middle and high school grades had activities at the high school. There was a haunted boys’ locker room, face painting, games, a dance, and (at 10pm) the varsity strip show for high school students only. All new members of the boys’ varsity club had to do the strip show, though older members liked doing it too. Varsity club is for both male and female varsity (highest) level high school athletes. Female varsity club members did not do the strip show. For the strip show, the boys would dress up as girls, with crazy wigs and makeup, carrying water balloons in their bras and squirt guns in their purses. Everyone gathers in the gym to watch the these “ladies” come out dancing (badly) to a pop song and stripping off their clothes. When they got to their bras they would throw their water balloons at the crowd and pull out their squirt guns to shoot water at everyone. We all thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately for my younger sister, some school board member, with a big broomstick up her butt, decided the strip show was “inappropriate” by the time she got to high school. The Night of Fun was designed to keep older kids from vandalizing the town, which was a big problem during the 1970s. The school board took away the one thing that kept us high school kids off the streets until curfew. It was not surprising when vandalism spiked back up after that.

[@ronbo11]

I used to work in a big corporate office that had a day care for the kids of the employees. On (or near) Halloween, the nursery room staff would escort all the children in their costumes around the campus for a Halloween Parade - it was so cute. Most of us handed candy to the them as well. Most departments also had Halloween parties for their staff and we dressed up and usually had a potluck lunch in a big conference room (employees bring in side dishes/desserts/utensils with managers or even employees providing main courses). When I was growing up in the 1970s, most houses only decorated with jack-o-lanterns or straw displays with handmade ghosts/scarecrows/monsters. All the fancy lighting, fake tombstones and inflatable decorations really became popular in the 1990s or so. I will say that when I Trick or Treated, I would go about a mile in radius around my home (either with my older sister or by myself later) and get candy from people in all these different, nearby neighborhoods. In my home state, Indiana, it would be pretty chilly and sometimes drizzling/raining. We felt very safe in those days and my parents never worried about us coming in after dark. Times have changed in that regard, sadly. The other big tradition at Halloween are haunted houses. These can last several weeks up to the holiday or can be more time constrained. They could be done by charitable organizations or even for-profit enterprises. They are more oriented for the early teenage to adult audience due to the frequent jump scares and frightening make-up/scenes. Some take place in abandoned warehouses or other spooky buildings (an abandoned church with an old graveyard would have been awesome) and there are a lot of technicians and costumed actors to make the experience as "real" as possible. I was frightened in one when I was very young and had nightmares for a few weeks after, but as I got older, I grew to enjoy the weird joy of being scared.

[@Camile1283]

Can confirm at my old jobs we always dressed up for Halloween. Sometimes, the supervisors would even give out candy and/or we would have costume contests with prizes. If you haven't yet, you guys should react to haunted houses and other Halloween attractions. The themes parks do them every year. Some people even have small haunted houses in their yards (front and back).

[@Camile1283]

Also, PD missed out on sharing a BIG piece of Halloween tradition: the day after Halloween (Easter & Valentine's, too), all the holiday candy goes on sale, so some of us wait until the day after to go get candy for low prices.😋🥰

[@AlyNotAlly]

Giving kids a quiz before candy is a sure way to a trick. They’re gonna egg or TP your house for sure 😂

[@catlovermeowmeow-21]

Some people set up a area inside their house to scare you when you go in to get candy, those always made me had trust issues😭

[@chichilafemme6336]

Halloween is enjoyable at all ages, trick or treating as a kid, college Halloween parties as a college kid, and costumes at work as an adult. I love to watch scary movies and shows throughout all October. Second fav holiday after Christmas

[@jg7afbf]

I work in an office. We all dress up for Halloween and have a potluck lunch (everyone brings items to eat) that is Halloween themed. Before the pandemic I sat at my computer all day dressed as a giant banana. I’m 50 years old, haha!

[@AK1776-]

As an American I’m jealous of all your summer festivals. They always look like so much fun and the food looks amazing!

[@GavinFox2028]

Can’t wait for Halloween 🎃 Thanks 😊 guys for uploading this, enjoyed the reactors opinion about this.

[@Emm-os1qo]

Halloween has always been my favourite holiday. It's so much fun decorating the house and dressing up! I even worked at a haunted house when I was younger.

[@SB-ez3dw]

Yes! Adults absolutely dress in costumes for work. I spent $100’s of dollars every year to make Halloween costumes to wear to work. After work, we went out for drinks and the fun continued.

[@myaatkins]

It's even celebrated at school. You either come to school in your costume or change during the day and we'd have a Halloween parade around the neighborhood. Then we'd go back and have a party in our classes with a lot of different treats. Candy, cookies, cupcakes, etc

[@VaBeachBeach2971]

My favorite part of Halloween as a kid besides the candy was the houses in the neighborhood that made their house into a walk through haunted house. Some got really elaborate and extended into the front and back yard and sometimes the garage too. The different jump scares in front yard we’re fun too. People laying in coffins or whatever hiding spot they came up with and as you walk up to ring door bell they jump out and scare you. Halloween is my favorite holiday.

[@susansheldon2033]

Yes, some people wear costumes to work on Halloween and some don't. Most teachers wear a costume!

[@HelloMello91]

To confirm what the guy in black shirt said- Americans pretty much start celebrating Halloween pretty much all of October with pumpkin carving, house decorations, corn mazes, haunted houses, halloween/costume parties, and then trick or treating on the day of for the kids. For Thanksgiving we usually get two days off, Thursday (the actual day) and then the Friday after (Black Friday) - Since Black Friday is to essentially buy Christmas present for cheap., It's pretty standard tradition through out all of the USA to put up christmas lights and all your christmas decorations the DAY after Thanksgiving. So yeah - we pretty much celebrate the Christmas/Holiday season from Thanksgiving all the way to 12/25 Christmas day! So the last few months of the year are VERY festive!! :) And you'll see that in every grocery store, supermarket, and just all the stores (Target, Walmart, etc...) starting mid-September or sometimes earlier.

[@16poetisa]

Fortunately, Thanksgiving is usually 3-4 weeks after Halloween, not just 1 week! But yes, the "holiday season" is basically from Halloween to New Year's, then everyone takes a break for the winter months until spring. If you live in a house you have more storage, so you can buy a few decorations every year and build up your inventory. People with apartments also decorate around their front doors and their balconies too. Even without Daylight Savings, it gets dark before 7pm, so the kids can experience the full spookiness without staying up too late. But some parents prefer starting early for better visibility and to lessen the risk of car accidents (which are sadly really common on Halloween night). Yes, people do dress up at work, especially for office jobs. You can even see people in costumes on public transit as they commute! Other people just wear Halloween-themed clothing and accessories. Students and teachers wear costumes to school too, and some places will have costume contests. Other people might even decorate their cars. Of course we also have office parties, house parties, dorm parties, etc. and some people do just dress up and drink alcohol. I like the general spirit of the season, even if people don't do much - the little touches of office decorations, bowls of candy everywhere, and people excitedly sharing their Halloween plans. For the adults it's a chance to have fun, but there's also childhood nostalgia. And the scary movies, of course!

[@AjunebuggybugK]

There are often set times for when areas do trick-or-treating. In my city, the set times are 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. If a house runs out of candy, or isn't passing any out, you turn the lights out to show that you don't have any candy. Costumes are very common at work, unless you work a job that has safety restrictions on uniforms. Business will even do thinks like have a costume contest between staff or they will have Halloween decorating contests between departments. Schools are, of course, very involved. Kids dress up, teachers decorate classrooms, some will have parades for the younger kids to show off their costumes, and some will do trick-or-treating between classrooms or trunk-or-treats (This is usually something done at schools, daycares, or community centers. Parents will park their cars in a parking lot and the kids will go from car to car, where the parents have stored the candy in their trunk, to trick-or-treat. These happen earlier in the day and real trick-or-treating is in the evening). And the treats you get while trick-or-treating! When I was growing up there was one house that gave out quarters, one that gave out full size candy bars, and one that would have tables set up for people to get hot chocolate, hot apple cider, home made donuts, and caramel apples. Now that I'm not a kid, the real fun is seeing the cute costumes. The real little kids are just the best! And their excitement at the candy they get is so pure! And finally, Halloween is a month long celebration. Throughout October there will be pumpkin patches where people go for fun, decor, and pumpkins to make jack-o-lanterns. Houses all over are decorated, whether it is cute or scary. TV channels will show scary movies or episodes of tv shows throughout the month. And haunted houses pop up all over. There is one in my neighborhood where the payment to enter is a donation of a canned food item to go to a food bank, so it is for a good cause. Even local schools will have haunted houses, which are always fun because of the students working the haunted house.

[@amberwhite7148]

In elementary school they also have halloween parties! Instead of doing work they'll spend an afternoon having a pizza party and doing fun activities/games, parents will sometimes come to help set up and bring food and the kids wear their costumes at school

[@Rabid-Pinocchio]

A shame that this post is 2 Yrs old because an interesting aspect of Halloween that is often forgotten when explaining to foreign people. Most cities the unwritten 'law' of Halloween is that before Either 8:00 PM or 10 PM (2000H or 2200H) that is the kids` time. They come around knocking on doors and getting treats. After 10:00 PM/2200H that's time for the adults to play. Many cities have a MardiGras type of admosphere where there is usually a huge party admosphere where people are walking around in costumes, drinking, bar-hopping and just making merry. Many citys in Canada have this kind of party in most big citys so although the holiday is meant for the kids, the big kids get to play too.

[@pansyross8862]

I love Halloween 🎃

[@Animation27]

I trick-or-treated for as long as possible. I was maybe 15/16 the last year I did it. Who doesn’t want tons of free candy?!?!? It’s always a pleasure to see all the cute kids dressed up, especially the little ones. Adults don’t trick or treat, but often dress up for work or parties.

[@ross8287]

I'm 21 this year and I happily continue to go trick or treating every year! its the best

[@judithwalker8682]

In my neighborhood trick or treat is not only for kids but also for the parents . Each street decorates their houses and several houses setup grill stations for hotdogs and hamburgers . 😊 . Even the grownups dress up . The firemen and police also hand out candy . One neighbor is a set designer and he has the most spectacular displays ie : dragons that breathe fire and smoke , Witch cauldrons that produce dry ice fog , Dracula’s coffin (he dresses as Dracula) , giant spiders etc. His ghost and Goblin display last year was truly awesome and made the news .

[@RedStorm1392]

Yes, we wear costumes at work! Even as nurses, we wear Halloween inspired scrubs or some of us even have on cute (hospital appropriate and within regulations) costumes.

[@pambarab5506]

I'm 60+ yrs old and I remember going out on Halloween, then when I was (sadly) too old to trick or treat, I decorated my house and started giving out candy to the kids. I still do it. It's just a fun night for all ages.