Korean mud festival sees anarchy reign
  
       
 

The girls wrestling in bikinis, crumpled beer cans and a mud-splattered Miss Universe

BORYEONG, South Korea, July 20 (Yonhap) - The girls wrestling in bikinis, crumpled beer cans and a mud-splattered Miss Universe looked shocking in a country renowned for its

 

 
 

cosmetic excesses and sharp conservative edge.But they were signature motifs at the eighth Boryeong Mud Festival, a seven-day event that kicked off Saturday. It has since spawned a 2 billion won (US$1.9 million) a year cottage industry and mushroomed from a promotional campaign for local cosmetics into a quasi rock festival.

  
     
 
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