Mudfest is a festival in Boryeong (보령), South Korea that is as awesome as it is ridiculous which is a significant amount! Just think of the mud from Woodstock, but instead of being on a farm in New York being on the beach on the West coast of Korea. Then throw in a week of festivities of which every young Korean, Expat, and service man partakes in for an entire week, which include activities such as mud wrestling, mud slides,  mud prisons, and much imbibing of adult beverages. At this point I had been traveling every weekend for about 5 weeks and was thoroughly exhausted with traveling at the time and this wasn’t aided by the fact that it was Marc’s going away party the night before. So Subin and I rolled back to my house at sometime about 5am to take a quick shower then catch our bus 6 hour bus from Busan to Boryeong at 7am. Fast-forwarding through a 6 hour party bus we arrived at Mudfest which was absolutely ridiculous. Tens of thousands of people already plastered by 2 or 3 in the afternoon having mud fights, mud baths, or just mud painting on other people. So Subin, Len (a really cool guy who is friend’s with Subin), and I all rolled out to the beach for some good old dirty fun in the mud!

After playing in the mud we went back to the motel to shower and get a little rest. I definitely desired more rest but it absolutely did not happen because I couldn’t let Mudfest pass by (in my guidebook Mudfest is listed as 1 of the 25 things you cannot miss in Korea). So I showered and shared some awkward moments with sharing a motel room with a girl who is very much not in my favor (Len said something to the effect that it brought the rain clouds into our motel room). So we more or less bounced to get some coffee and hit the town in the rain. Despite the Monsoon rains the party was raging on in the streets with dancing to live music, covered in mud, and good friends. I sadly lost Len (who had my phone so I couldn’t call him) but luckly before I lost him I found Mina, Ben, Sandra, etc…. So we hit the Noraebang (Karaoke Room) then went out for some dancing in the rain and mud. During which I decided to go get a bite to eat and proceeded to fall asleep at the restaurant, which was when I knew it was time to hang it up for the night and turn in. The next day our bus left early because of how the terrible the weather was, which in my tired state was not wholely unwelcomed. It was an awesome weekend just wish I was more awake…Next time I guess, but here are some pics for now.

Pics by the SacBee