Korea (semi)recently held their annual mud festival at Daecheon beach. Its basically a giant beach party with lots of mud and foreigners. I'd been hearing about mud fest since before I even arrived in Korea, and to top it off it happened to coincide with my birthday. So of course I had to check it out!
Cheonan is only about a 30 minute train ride from Daecheon so I decided to forego signing up for a group trip. Instead I headed down in the early afternoon with co-worker. Upon arrival we put our bags in a locker and headed into the already well established crowd to get muddy.
For a festival centered around mud, it was surprisingly difficult to get muddy! The main area with blow up slides, pools etc had a long wait for tickets followed by an even longer wait to get in. It seemed like just about evert foreigner in Korea was there! Some people I talked to waited over two hours total. They also had large basins that I assumed were supposed to be full of mud but they'd been mostly cleaned out before we arrived. I finally just went up to a Korean volunteer who kindly dumped a bucket of mud over my head. Thanks-uh!
Despite the long lines, mud fest was still a blast. Because I'm writing this post five weeks after the event, the day is kind of a big blur of craziness. The highlights include seeing pretty much every waygook I've met since coming to Korea, meeting new people, a K pop concert, and a tomato pit. It was definitely a great way to spend my first birthday in Korea!
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