Ever thought about taking a trip to South Korea? If so, plan it for July. That’s when the otherwise sleepy seaside town of Boryeong explodes to life in a squelching, face-caked orgy of oozing grey mud.
South Korean girls showing their hot assests
What started in 1998 as a marketing stunt to promote Boryeong's skincare and beauty products – made using local, mineral-rich mud – has splattered like a well-aimed mud bomb into something more: still a marketing ploy, but so too a mud-crazed extravaganza where folks get to have oodles of messy fun
Taking place over nine days, the Boryeong Mud Festival is what it says on the tin: revellers party from dawn till dusk, while wallowing in the therapeutic, skin-nourishing mud. It’s an all out celebration as people bathe, dance, loll, tussle and generally hang out in the gooey substance that's literally on everyone’s lips – 200 tons of which is trucked in for the festivities.
The fun is focused on Boryeong's beautiful Daecheon beach area – near the plain where the mud is dug up – and it’s here in ‘Mud Experience Land’ that it’s tops off only and bikinis galore. For the girls it’s a chance to feel the dermatological benefits of the caking one’s face in abundant mud packs. For the guys it’s a chance to ogle the girls. For everyone it's an opportunity to make a mess of themselves
