Mud Festival in Korea!!

The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, South Korea. The first Mud Festival was staged in 1998 and, by 2006, the festival attracted 1.5 million visitors to Boryeong.

The mud is dug up near Boryeong, trucked to the Daecheon beach area, and dumped at a 'Mud Experience Land'.The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics.

Some of the final weekend participants are foreign tourists, and especially American GIs, but most of the participants during the week are Koreans, attracted by clever marketing by the town. The town fathers and mothers discovered that the mud is more lucrative as a tourist attraction than using the muddy fields for agriculture.[2] The economy generated from the festival supports the many hotels and restaurants along the waterway and several blocks inland. There is also a great deal to see and do in the vicinity and a free tourist bus takes visitors to local sites, including an impressive coal mine and a famous Buddhist shrine.

In 2008 the festival took place between 12-20 July. In 2009 it took place from July 11-19.
So, me at there!!


Here are some of my friends that enjoy much traveling and gain crazy experienced!!



Actually,we went there with "SEM" ( none profit organization ). They subsidized some fund on this trip for all of us. You can see in the photo, we are carrying all the box to the beach. inside the box all of it are our lunch that prepared by SEM!! ^_^


The view of the Boryeong beach with concert stage!! it never happen in my home country (Malaysia)!! Cool!!


Me and the beach view.. the wave quite strong!!


This is the lunch that i talk about.. KIMPAP!! only few bite make mine stomach full!! ; )


This is Me with the color mud!! blue color!!this is the 1st time mud stick on my body and face!! cool man!!


This is the ordinary mud!! look quite ugly.. but great experienced!! ; )


After i wash my-self, i walk around and take some photo!!
See few of the foreigner playing with the mud!! they are so enjoying!!


Since they having so much fun!! i manage to grab one of them to take photo!! ; )


Take picture with color mud couple!! them look great!! keke (some how like zombie couple) ; )


The Mud Festival Mascot.. all over the mascot body with mud too!! the mud almost stick on my cloth!! ; )



The festival also provide some Mud game for kids and adult to enjoy!! the 1st one is for kids. Another one is the mud jail, you can see the small building like a jail.
stay in the jail, the mud will pour into the jail!! yahoo!! then your whole body will all over the mud!! ; )



And you also can see a lot of hot girls and cool guys there too!! ; ) ; )


Before we all leave the place, some of us take a picture together!! ; )



The map of the Boryeong beach and the information stands!!


Before leave the place, i figure out some on scratch my hand!! hehe ; )


Me and the main entrance!!

So, what do you waiting for?
Make your next Korea travel plan on next summer to Mud festival!!
You wouldnt regret!! hehe !!

Some guide how to go to the mud festival:

Seoul Express Terminal
There are 3 terminals in Seoul that you can use to get to Boryeong.
1. Seoul Express Bus Terminal (Central) --> Boryeong (Daecheon) Estimated Time:
2 hours 20 mins.
2. Dong Seoul Express Bus Terminal --> Daecheon (Boryeong)
(3 hours, 8,700 won)
3. Daecheon Terminal to Daecheon Beach

For those from Incheon Airport,
There is a bus from Incheon that directly goes to Daecheon Beach (Boryeong) but only once a day. It departs at 13:20, ticket price is 1,3400 won. However, it will be very difficult to find a ticket for this.

Other Ways to get to Boryeong from Incheon:
1. Incheon --> Cheonan Shinbu Terminal (Cheonan), then from Cheonan -->
Daecheon (Boryeong) (Estimated Time : 2 hours 30 mins, 7,400 won)

Well! Boryeong Mud Festival is one of my favorite place all the time! : D

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Take a look on the Mud Festival 2010

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Ceramic Village In Korea!!

Hi all of my friends there,
Ceramic Village is a place that you must visit if you come to Korea. A place that you shouldn't miss!!

The name of the place is Gyeryeongsan Ceramics Village
The village is located in a narrow valley between Yuseong in Daejeon and Gongju. The valley is heavy with trees and has a small creek that runs from the mountains to the highway. The mountain towers over the valley with craggy walls rising steeply toward the sky.

Turn left off provincial highway 32 at the set first set of traffic lights coming from Daejeon after the turn off to Donghaksa, about 1km. Look for a sign that points toward Sangsin-ri and head 3km into the valley. As you come to the end of the valley, keep to the right and follow the stream past Seong-bul Hermitage (성불암).
This is the way go to the Ceramic village.


In the ceramic village, there are a lot of flowers and trees make us feel so relax.
I like the country side environment.


We really in the country side.. really nice to look around..





All of the pictures that show above are the products that they have made.. all of it so beautiful and also artistic!!


And these are the rings that made from ceramic.. amazing, right? haha


Here are some of my ASEAN friends, we took pictures together.. ^^


Do you see the bicycle on the roof of the building? This is the building that we going to enter and to make and design our own pottery inside.. Interesting!!


And we took some pictures inside the building.. we all are photoholic!! ^^


This is the place that we going to shape our pottery with two of the spinning tools.



Before we start, two of the teachers in the ceramic village do some demostration before we start to do by our-self!! haha exciting!!


Then again took a picture with others ASEAN and chinese firends.. ; )


My Loas friend, Tick made a bird.. really nice.

This is my pottery making video, haha, not skillful enough to make a good one..
But Nice experienced!! ; )


The pottery that i pointing is mine product, and got my name on the surface of the pottery!! The pottery Looking good!! ; )


The entrance of the building, me and indonesian Chinese friend..


He is the manager of this Ceramic Village!! Nice looking guy!! ; )



Me with pottery maker, they look like brother. Maybe they are brother. ; )


Actually this visit participated by 20 ASEAN students, Chinese students and Japanese students. All of us make and design a pottery our-self. Really a nice experienced for all of us!! This is the picture with all of the students, officers and the pottery makers.. ; )


I took this from the bus, they waving to us when we leave the Ceramic village..

Hope able i come here to make it again for SOMEONE THAT SO SPECIAL!! ; )

As for more information regarding the ceramic village in Korea, you all can make some comments to ask me.
Feel free to leave some comments. ; ) ^_^ ; )

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1st Ever outstation trip for my internshp in KINS, Korea

Hi everyone,
This is my 1st outstation trip for my internship in KINS.
My Supervisor, Prof. Nam, Expert Bus driver and me departed from the institute on 845 am morning.



This was the bus(mobile security center) we went to Anyang city. It is not an ordinary bus as you think. Just read this tread until the end. ; )


The time before i step in to the bus. Cant wait to step on the bus. !!



This are few snapshot of Anyang City.


He is my supervisor, Prof. Nam.
He is a very kind person, he always teach me new things. I like him. ; )


This is the driver seat of the bus, you can see it has more control button than the ordinary bus.


Inside the bus has the control Unit server. The left hand side section is the power generator controller. On the right hand side upper part, it is the satellite control system. For the middle part, is the video & audio controller and for lower part, it is the Input/output controller. Well, during this Trip Prof. Nam explain about how this security system work and the functions too. Very interesting!!


This picture show the middle part of the bus, inside there like a conference room with conferencing system (video camera conferencing). During the emergency operation they able to communicate with headquarter all around the Korea. Impressive!! ; )


There was some problem at the LED screen on top of the bus, some technician went up there to fix it.



Here are few snapshots that me in the bus. ; )


Yap, this is the time to have lunch... What a great restaurant!!


We ate O li roast ( grill duck meat). Really nice and delicious!! I loving it!



Not only the meat but with a lot of side dishes all around the table.. you can see it your self!!


The one on the right hand side was the expert bus driver i mentioned. He talk a lot during the lunch.. hehe ; )


And have free ice cream after the lunch, this restaurant provide free ice cream. Must go there next time... ; )


Well, after that we went to car painter workshop that few Kilometer away the restaurant. Some bus body texts needed to change..


Before it change.


In the process of changing the texts.


After changed.. if you notice there are some korean character changed.. observe by your self.. ; )

They just spend around 45min to change the texts.. really fast..
well after that, we straight away went back Daejeon, KINS.

Haha, an extraordinary bus that i ever know.
It is just some simple experienced from the trip.
The main part for me is the understand on the security system in the Mobile security center.
I learn new thing there.. ; ) ; )

Anyang not just a city, there are a lot of interesting place to visit, click below to know more about Anyang city. ; )
http://en.anyang.go.kr/new/
I believe i will visit Anyang again!! ; )

Feel free to leave some comments. ; )

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