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Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« on: May 10, 2010, 02:07:36 pm »
The time of the year for one of Korea's most popular summer festivals is quickly approaching, and I thought what better place to mention it than here? The Boryeong Mud Festival (see LP "Korea", 8th ed., boxed text pg. 332 if you have it) will be running from July 17th until July 25th this year, moved to the second and third week of July, presumably to avoid the bad weather that happened during the first week last year.

The festival takes place at Daecheon Beach, one of the nicest beaches in Korea (in my opinion). While the festival itself trucks in the slightly-watered down gray mud into bins, slides, mud wrestling pits and other contraptions to the beach front, if you go with an organization like Adventure Korea (http://www.adventurekorea.com), it's possible to participate in either "extreme mud training" (the first weekend, July 17th~18th) or the "mud marathon" (the second weekend, July 24th~25th).

Because the festival is so popular, accommodations in and around Boryeong are already booking quickly. If you'll be in Korea at that time, and think you want to play in the mud, you should be making your plans now!

Trips for only 75,000KRW (including transportation, accommodation, and "mud training") are already posted here: http://www.adventurekorea.com/ouradventure/calendar_content.asp?id=calendar&RowNo=489 and http://www.adventurekorea.com/ouradventure/calendar_content.asp?id=calendar&RowNo=490

http://mudfestival.or.kr/
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2010, 11:47:49 am »
Has anyone camped at the Mud Festival before?
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2010, 04:57:53 pm »
ditto.  Would love to know about the feasibility of either pitching a tent or sleeping in the car.
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2010, 02:07:15 pm »
I do know that people have slept on the beach. Whether camping with tents is officially permitted, I'm not sure. I suppose the best bet would be to have a look at the Boryeong Mud Festival website, although the English version is from last year.
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2010, 04:22:32 pm »
been trying to find information about camping, but cannot find any online...???
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2010, 07:51:55 am »
Hi,

Does anybody know the best way to Mudfest? I already have accomodation,just need to figure out how I will be getting there. I'd like to leave after 8pm on Friday. I'm in Bundang. I can't seem to find the bus from express bus terminal and dong seoul doesn't have a bus that leaves after 8pm. anybody know about the train?
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2010, 12:22:40 pm »
Catch the train to Daecheon Station. Its close to the mudfestival location (Dacheon beach). Train is slightly more expensive but should be quicker, especially with traffic, although on friday night you should be safe either way.


I'm planning on visiting the mud festival but staying in a different beach town. I'm not in it for the drinking so I'm hoping to get there early morning before the tour buses and head south early evening before it gets out of hand. If anyone knows a good place around Seocheon or so, recommendations would be appreciated.

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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2010, 01:40:34 pm »
The train leaves from Yongsan and is only like $12 one way.  I went last weekend.  I would have a Korean help you book tickets though, because it will probably be only standing left if you just show up.  Since it is a 2 1/2 to 3 hour train ride, that can be really hard.
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2010, 01:55:57 pm »
Hey

I have transport covered but not accommodation. Do you know if there are many jim-jil-bangs near the beach area? If not I think I'll have to crash on a friends floor (Beach is also another option)

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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2011, 08:28:45 am »
For Boryeong Mud Festival 2011, July 16h weekend:
If you live in Busan and are looking to travel there, Wink (formerly Discover Korea) is trying to see if there's enough interest to get a bus leaving from there to the festival: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=213389462026595

This page, about the original bus departing from Seoul has more details:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192298530813745
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2011, 08:51:57 am »
Last year we just arrived early and got a love motel right on the beach. However, I heard people later in the day complaining that all the rooms were booked so if you're going independently you should probably head up Friday night or super early Saturday!
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2011, 05:05:37 pm »
Word of warning...

If you're either

over 30 and no longer in the college days mentality

embarrased or easily upset over seeing other waeygs doing extremely embarrassing / rude / offensive / cringeworthy things whilst Koreans are waching...

Skip it.

Or get a private pension / minbak with good friends.

What's the nuttiest / naughtiest thing anyone has ever seen people do at mudfest??
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2011, 05:14:40 pm »
I went last year didn't like it at all, too messy am maybe boring mm but it wasn't for me, too many people and too long way. The music performance at the nighttime was ok i guess, i had to pay fortune to stay in motel 120,000
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« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2011, 05:43:51 pm »
If your favorite thing to do in Korea is pretend you're not in Korea, then this is the festival for you.
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2011, 06:35:38 pm »
Quote from: hilarity ensues on May 25, 2011, 05:43:51 pm
If your favorite thing to do in Korea is pretend you're not in Korea, then this is the festival for you.

Haebangchan fest?   :D

Never seen so many flip flops; jeans that are filthy and all torn at the hems; [mod edit: vulgarity removed]  - in all my life.   :o
« Last Edit: May 25, 2011, 07:20:14 pm by foreverJ »
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2011, 02:40:41 pm »
I used to see it as thousands of drunken foreigners and students, confused families and hundreds of media voyeurs and perverts with cameras looking to document all the drunken debauchery.  Last year, they moved the main venue way down the beach.  They are adding more and more cops, lines and fences every year and turning a festival that was very unique for Korea in to something that's just another crowded expensive weekend at the beach with a little mud.  If you want to go and act stupid, please tell people you are an exchange student or tourist from a former colony that no longer exists in name..
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« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2011, 02:55:45 pm »
Can I ask how some of you have booked your accommodations and how much it's costing you? I'm not planning on going with a tour group or book in with the mudfest guys but I'm hoping to have my accommodations booked before arriving...
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« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2011, 03:13:35 pm »
I went to the Mud festival last year. Personally, I was VERY let down by the festival. Maybe my expectations were too high, but the actual 'mud area' was very small and the festival itself was almost non-existent. I would never go back to that festival.

P.S. full disclosure, I got VERY SICK, so that effects my overall opinion of the festival.
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Re: Boryeong Mud Festival/보령머드축제
« Reply #18 on: June 21, 2011, 11:47:33 am »
Hey everyone,

I want to let you know that I'm organizing a trip to the Boryeong Mud Festival for the first weekend (July 16th-17th), and we have plenty of space left. We're a non-profit group, so our prices are very cheap (starting at 45,000 won). Prices include accommodation (1-2 minutes walk from the mud action), round-trip transportation via chartered bus, and a rooftop bbq party. Come get muddy with us!

http://www.meetup.com/Lost-in-Seoul/events/17260754/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156571954407446

Cheers!

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« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2011, 02:49:39 pm »
Hey guys! 

Where did you sleep at the mudfest?  I want to go soon (not for the fest, duh! just to boryeong area) and need a place to sleep. Preferably nice :) and on the beach :)
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