If your people doesn’t celebrate the Anglo version of Christmas already, it’s a pretty hard sell. Just try explaining it to someone who doesn’t know anything about it. So Christmas exists to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, ok. But neither God nor the three sages from the Christmas story are said to bring the presents; they are apparently brought by St Nicholas who was a Turkish bishop but he wears a red-and-white garment and is somehow connected to Coca Cola, and he has a sled with flying reindeer, and he sometimes brings this Austrian devil-beast which threatens the kids with a bundle of twigs. At some point in your childhood you are supposed to learn that neither of the two actually exists, but no one will tell you and you have to play pretend until you’re a grown adult, at which point you are expected to lie to your own kids about it, while at the same time openly exchanging gifts with the other adults. You don’t celebrate Christmas in the Holy Night, but the night after, and the day after that there’s an extra Boxing day. Also, there is a tree and you have to decorate it with glass spheres and a silver glitter rope.

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Korea is literally called the Jerusalem of the East. Kim Il Sung himself comes from a Protestant family that likely celebrated Christmas, and Christianity is a protected religion in the DPRK. The two main protestant churches in the country are highly supportive of the government.