Posted on July 19, 2019
In 1998, a town in South Korea hosted a Mud Festival to call attention to its mud-based cosmetics.
Just a couple of decades later, the Boryeong Mud Festival has gone from a little-known upstart festival to the most popular festival in all of Korea, with thousands of attendees (in 2007, 2.2 million!!!).
Just a couple of decades later, the Boryeong Mud Festival has gone from a little-known upstart festival to the most popular festival in all of Korea, with thousands of attendees (in 2007, 2.2 million!!!).
Umm...a mud festival?
Yep! There's everything from colored-mud face painting and mud marathons to mudflats football and a kid-safe mud zone! In Mud Experienceland, there is a mud pool, several mud slides, and even a mud prison! (People voluntarily enter the mud prison, and there they are pelted by mud by others...) 
And the games - I mean, mud-conga-line, a mud skiing competition, mud soccer, mud fights, mud footraces, even a mud obstacle course!
Of course there is a local products fair that includes all those mud cosmetics, plus there are loads of Mud Festival souvenirs for sale. Plus, there's food, live music, a parade, even fireworks!
The festival is held at the beach - so it's easy to take a dip in the ocean several times a day to get un-muddy...so that you can go back and get muddy again!
The Boryeong Mud Festival goes on for about two weeks - this year from July 19 to July 28.
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