Now don't get muddy?
  
       
 

When you were growing up did your mother often say ``now don't get muddy''? When we think of mud we usually think of it as something we loved as children but try to avoid as adults. Saturday, diplomats and their families, foreign media and other invited guests of the International Friendship

 

 
 

Club Korea (IFC) got a little muddy _ on purpose, that is. Two IFC buses traveled from Seoul to Boryeong on Korea's west coast so guests could participate in the opening day of the 10th Annual Boryeong Mud Festival. Judging from IFC guests' reactions and the celebratory mood in Boryeong city and Daecheon Beach, the festival lives up to its designation, appointed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as a ``Best Festival.''

  
     
 
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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