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I will spend the Lunar New Year’s holiday rather quietly. No celebrations, no family gatherings, no feasts, and no memorial rites for my ancestors. Instead, I am sending gifts to some of my relatives via online shopping. And I plan to visit some cool cafes for nice snacks and coffee.Traditional holiday rituals and gatherings are rapidly going out of fashion in Korea. According to a recent poll by Korea Research, only about half of the respondents said they will see relatives during this year’s Lunar New Year Holiday; Only 4 out of 10 said they plan to do a memorial rite, the traditional big table ceremony paying respect to the ancestors. That is quite a dramatic drop from 2006 when Gallup Korea found that at least 80% of Koreans engaged in memorial rites during Chuseok and Lunar New Year’s holidays. Looking around me now, few are celebrating in the traditional way.The traditional holiday rites have been criticized as burdensome, inconvenient and irrational. You have to travel in

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