nPosted on July 19, 2019
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nIn 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
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Umm…a mud festival?
Umm…a mud festival?
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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…)
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…) n
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nAnd the games – I mean, mud-conga-line, a mud skiing competition, mud soccer, mud fights, mud footraces, even a mud obstacle course!
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nOf 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!
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nThe 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!
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nThe Boryeong Mud Festival goes on for about two weeks – this year from July 19 to July 28.
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Anniversary of a collaboration between giants
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nAnniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Nanfan (?)
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nAnniversary of the Metro (subway) in Paris
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nArts and Artists Day
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nAnniversary of the first parking meters
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nnAnniversary of the Revival of Flitch Day
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nMartyrs’ Day in Myanmar / Burma
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nBirthday of singer and race car driver Masahiko Kondō
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