Boryeong mud festival 2008
 
       
 

We arrived in Boryeong late in the afternoon, checked into our hotel and wandered down to the beach. Boryeong is a small city of around 100,000 residents, but its mud festival has attracted 1.5 million visitors since it began in 1998.

  

 
 

This success has largely been due to a clever marketing campaign that runs nationwide in the weeks leading up to the event. There were noticeably more people and attractions than last year. This mud slide welcomes visitors to the main entrance of the beach. The idea of the mud festival is to get covered in mud, relax and have some fun. It was a nice weekend away, and we managed to fulfill all three criteria.

 
     
 
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Press Release

- Boryeong Mud Festival Gets Grubby - ABC New
- South Korean mud festival attracts messy behavior - Wed Jul 16, 2008/ REUTERS
- Korean Mud Festival may Ban US Troops - July 16, 2008/ Headlines
- South Korea mud festival considers banning U.S. troops - July 17, 2008/ stripes
- South Korean mud festival attracts messy behavior - 2008.07.17/ NEWS
- Mud Festival in South Korea - June 19, 2008/ The Coast
- People play during 11th Boryeong Mud Festival - 2008.07.13/ CHINA DAILY
- South Korean mud festival attracts messy behavior - July 17, 2008/ People's Daily Online
- Big Breaks - Sunday Herald
- Muddy Fun in the Sun in S. Korea's Daecheon - July 20, 2008/ The Seoul Times
- Get Away From It All - 07.15.2008/ The Seoul Times
- Good Clean Fun - Jun. 19, 2006/ Time
- Mud Festival' in South Korea - BEIJINGREVIEW.COM
- Getting Down ‘n Dirty at Daecheon Beach - 07.17.2007/ The Seoul Times
- Boryeong Mud Festival Gets Grubby - 07.17.2007 / The Korea Times