In July I attended the 11th Bureyong mudfest, the most popular summer event in the foreign community and one of the biggest young summer parties in South Korea. We spent two days on the beach, taking sunbaths and playing in the water.
Mud-Showered
There were lots of Koreans but this place is specially attractive for foreigners because they don’t care about getting muddy. I think that approximately 50% of the people were foreigners, out of them probably 90% were ESL teachers.
The main attraction of the festival is the mud. Huge quantities of mud. Grey, sticky, oily and dirty mud. It’s a lot of fun and is also supposed to be very healthy being this mud is essentially the same mud you can find in the expensive spas.
The feeling of the mud is greasy. You can swim in the mud or paint your body when it is still wet. It takes like 15 minutes to dry on your skin. After that you look like a statue. And there is a plus advantage, the mud is the perfect sun protector!
Hitting on the Mudfest woman
Apart of the mud buffet where you can paint yourself, there were also giant slides, a mud jail, a soccer game and several mudfighting rings. I couldn’t try the slides but the rings were a lot of fun.
Other activities were dancing under the mud rain and color painting. As this is Korea, while we were covering our skin we were eating large quantities of Korean food and drinking a lot of soju.