To participate in the largest mud festival of the world, millions of tourists have flocked to Boryeong located on the South of Chungcheong Province, South Korea. This is considered as one of the most popular annual festival of kimchi lands.
The Mud Festival Boryeong is taken place every year in late of July, with the number of participants up to millions of people every year; they come here to visit and participate in the festival.
Guests participate in fun activities like mud marathon, painting mud on the face even a mud bath and mud wrestling. Everyone is like taking a bath in a huge mud bath, and you have to run quickly and not to have too much mud on your face.
Inherently, it was organized to promote the uses of caring skin and beauty of the local mud, the festival has become a real craze, attracting tourists in large numbers to participate. Therefore, the government of Mud Festival Boryeong decided to turn it into an annual festival with all the activities related to the mud like mud wrestling, mud marathon, thus, this place is always crowded to foreign visitors.
Foreseeing the trend, a lot of restaurants serving traditional dishes such as sashimi, grilled scallops quickly put on their menu the West dishes such as pizza and hamburgers to serve the needs of travelers during the holiday season.
In addition, the mushrooming of many restaurants and other entertainment services has transformed Boryeong into one of the major tourist venues and attract a large number of tourists visiting each year. If you have a chance, you should also take the time to attend this festival at the end of July every year