▲ Poster of Boryeong Mud Festival

JULY 18 ~JULY 27, 2014

The symbol of joy and passion is festivals! A variety of festivals of each country presents different experiences and unforgettable memories to many people. Among these is a summer festival for the citizens of the world that has become world famous -- theBoryeong Mud Festival. Summer, the sea, and a festival,the Boryeong Mud Festival mixes these beautifully and is hot, fun, and cool.
 
A festival where you can roll over and enjoy mud in a mud festival site, which is smooth, moist, and cool, The 17th Boryeong Mud Festival will unfold for 10 days from July 18 to 27.
 
The Boryeong Mud Festival is at Daecheon Beach, located in Boryeong, Chungnam and the downtown every summer. It has already become a masterpiece festival by having been awarded the grand prize in the Korean Festival Contents in February, 2014. 3,170,000 people visited last year's festival, including 240,000 foreigners, bringing the title of  ※the Best Global Festival in Korea."
 
The Boryeong Mud Festival, as its popularity and fame is rising along with the formation of global mud maniacs, is receiving great attention from the world＆s leading press. In 2013, the renowned media, such as The Wall Street Journal, the British BBC, The Guardian, the Japanese BB News, and the German Stern in addition to the American CNN continuously reported stories related to the Boryeong Mud Festival.

The Huffington Post, a representative American blog news and the world＊smost successful online journal, introduced the Boryeong Mud Festival as ※one of the nine cool summer festivals that one should not miss§. The Huffington Post introduced the origin and the time of the festival by saying the ※Boryeong Mud Festival is a very famous and dirty festival that is visited by 2 million people every year§ and ※you can enjoy the spa treatment with the famous Boryeong mud§.
 
This festival plans to have the reputation as a global festival under the title of ※delightful and exciting mud experience with world citizens§. A variety of contents that will leave you with exciting memories, such as a mud massage with mud powder andthe tidal flat perseverance experience, Marine Corps style, performed on the tidal flat neighboring the Daecheon Beach, a marathon race of tidal flat experience, will present an unforgettable summer.

You can have all sorts of spectacular experiences with mud all over your body from head to toe, and running to the Daecheon coastal water and washing away the mud with the seawater is another fun experience. You can enjoy the essence of the festival with lots of things to see and feel by rolling in the mud, tanning your body on the beach, and watching the various performances and fireworks. 
 
Imagine the site of the Boryeong Mud Festival, where people from the world become one with the mud. Doesn't the slogan of the festival ※Plunge into the Mud! Roll over! And Enjoy§ come to your mind?