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DC in Suwon
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From what I heard, it was actually a different location in that city. It was like a small pond or something like that and they just threw mud in there for the kids to play.
No link, sorry. |
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redaxe
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:59 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah those kids were definitely not at THE Boryeong Mud Festival, they were somewhere else. This is another one of those "OMG STAY AWAY FROM THE DIRTY FOREIGNERS" kind of news articles |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| DC in Suwon wrote: |
From what I heard, it was actually a different location in that city. It was like a small pond or something like that and they just threw mud in there for the kids to play.
No link, sorry. |
Lol. Here's a pond teaming with who knows what! Let's just toss some mud and let the kids have a blast. |
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RufusW
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Busan
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Kenny Kimchee
Joined: 12 May 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Good god, do they not have editors?
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According Byryeong City Administration, around 200 out of 1,500 participants contracted skin inflammations while they were undergoing mud baths in the pre-mud festival events. |
Ahem, how about "According to the Boryeong City Administration"?
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The participants including many foreigners reportedly enjoyed mud bath, and mud slides and other mud-related facilities. |
"The participants - including many foreigners - reportedly enjoyed mud baths, mud slides, and other mud-related facilities."
Did a Korean write this and the white guy just attached his name to it? I hope so. |
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eIn07912
Joined: 06 Dec 2008
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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i dont think it matters whos fault it is or where they were. u know this is gonna get blamed on us. before, the mud was a quiet family festival. where koreans could come and bath in its healing properties, feast on some local kim chi, then beat their wives in peace.
now those dirty foreigners went down there. with their aids, and their gay, and their dirty sex all over the place. ruined yet another national pride of korea. who wants to get in that mud now? just like, who wants to sleep with defiled korean girl after she had one of those infected foreign willies in her? |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:06 am Post subject: |
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What gets me is that this wasn't reported anywhere in English except on my site. I'm not boasting, I'm just saying, how can you tout something as a big international get-together, yet withhold information that would be of interest to the people you're trying to attract?. Last year 83,000 of the 2.3 million people who visited were foreigners, which looks like a small percentage, but according to a few different sources it's the festival that attracts the greatest number of foreigners (not sure how they reckoned that, but whatever.)
Yeah, yeah, I know if news got out that some kids got sick from a mud site in the same city, many people would potentially stay home. But it kills me that none of the English-language papers even mentioned this before the festival. Today the Korea Times runs a thing that says people are not concerned about potentially dangerous mud . . . well of course they're not concerned, they didn't know anything suspicious happened there! |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:17 am Post subject: |
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It might be the pollution (chemicals or some condensed pathogens). |
Very, highly likely.
Not only do industrial toxins accumulate in Korean rivers and waterways due to their artificial concrete damming and dyking, but stagnant water in the warm summer months quickly becomes infected with natural poisons like botulism and algal blooms.
Understanding of the environment, ecosystems and how they function is in its infancy here. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:25 am Post subject: |
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What gets me is that this wasn't reported anywhere in English except on my site. I'm not boasting, I'm just saying, how can you tout something as a big international get-together, yet withhold information that would be of interest to the people you're trying to attract?. Last year 83,000 of the 2.3 million people who visited were foreigners, which looks like a small percentage, but according to a few different sources it's the festival that attracts the greatest number of foreigners (not sure how they reckoned that, but whatever.)
Yeah, yeah, I know if news got out that some kids got sick from a mud site in the same city, many people would potentially stay home. But it kills me that none of the English-language papers even mentioned this before the festival. Today the Korea Times runs a thing that says people are not concerned about potentially dangerous mud . . . well of course they're not concerned, they didn't know anything suspicious happened there! |
They wanted the tourism money- no matter what happens to the attendees.
Just like in "Jaws" when the mayor (Hal Holbrook) begged Brody (Roy Scheider) to keep the beaches open during the 4th of July. Then, the shark ate that boy and the mother slapped Brody because he knew about the shark. Remember?  |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:27 am Post subject: |
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i dont think it matters whos fault it is or where they were. u know this is gonna get blamed on us. before, the mud was a quiet family festival. where koreans could come and bath in its healing properties, feast on some local kim chi, then beat their wives in peace.
now those dirty foreigners went down there. with their aids, and their gay, and their dirty sex all over the place. ruined yet another national pride of korea. who wants to get in that mud now? just like, who wants to sleep with defiled korean girl after she had one of those infected foreign willies in her? |
So, with all of those Koreans there, NO ONE gets wild and freaky except the waygooks? Or is it that no one takes pictures of the Koreans getting freaky in the mud? |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| redaxe wrote: |
| Yeah those kids were definitely not at THE Boryeong Mud Festival, they were somewhere else. This is another one of those "OMG STAY AWAY FROM THE DIRTY FOREIGNERS" kind of news articles |
Maybe it should have been canceled because of the threat of spreading swine flu?  |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| Did someone just compare mud to a shark that eats people. |
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matthews_world
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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For what it's worth somebody commented on my site that they got a rash at the festival.
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| My friend and I have red bite like bumps all over our feet and legs.. At first I thought this was just bites but now i am sure it's the skin rash.. Anyways... I just wanted to say that we knew about the risks before we ever went to mud fest... other than the rain and the rash we had a great time.. FYI.. I won't be going next year.. this rash SUCKS! |
Not sure if they're being serious or what, but I just thought I'd share what they wrote. It could be any number of things, but they should probably get it checked out. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
They wanted the tourism money- no matter what happens to the attendees.
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Yeah I doubt foreigners are gonna get blamed for this, at least not heavily. They want foreigners to go to the Mud festival so they can take pictures of them, put them on the newspapers and talk about how much foreigners like Korea. |
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