Slow (and Welcome) Death of Korea's Ancestor Worship
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How to honor my paternal grandfather, who passed away when I was just one-year-old, remained a tricky matter in the family for a long time.My father, being the eldest son of a family from a conservative backwater village in South Jeolla Province, was expected to prepare and host memorial rites four times a year—on the Lunar New Year (Seolnal 설날), the mid-autumn festival (Chuseok 추석), my grandfather's birthday and on the anniversary of his death.My mother, a Christian urbanite who saw the whole t
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