View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
beckett
Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Location: Ireland
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: Mudfest - What is it ? |
|
|
Ok so am going down to this on saturday week. To be honest I don't really have much of a clue what it is , Is it just a big field with mud (could have stayed in Ireland for that) ? Is there any live music / djs ? I hear it's a good time anyway and I'm sure the atmosphere will be good but just don't really know it is ! |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
toby99
Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Location: Dong-Incheon-by-the-sea, South Korea
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:01 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Bunch of waygooks get wasted and roll around on a muddy beach while Koreans observe in disgust from a distance. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Caffeinated
Joined: 11 Feb 2010
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:01 pm Post subject: |
|
|
It's a fake festival invented to get the foreigners to fork money to get out of Itaewon for a weekend so they can take their anxieties out on each other.  |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
mcviking
Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Location: 'Fantastic' America
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Woodstock '99 without any live bands. Lot's of mud, lots of drunks, lots of fights, and general shenningans. Worth a peak, but honestly when all is said and done, it wasn't any different then any other drunk weekend, but there was mud and less fun bars. and holy shit is that a long bus ride from Busan. I recomend staying home and Family Mart drinking instead, because that is what you will do pretty much the whole time. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Missihippi

Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Location: Gwangmyeong
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject: |
|
|
It's mostly a small town with just a bunch of pensions and seafood restuarants on a random beach. They bring in mud from some place and set up a "mud area" where they have like plastic pools of mud and slides and stuff. If i remember correctly they have a small concert in the evening time.
I think it gets bigger and bigger every year, with mostly waegooks going now-a-days. It's a lot of fun if you like to party and don't mind getting dirty. Otherwise, stay home. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Bibbitybop

Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
toby99 wrote: |
Bunch of waygooks get wasted and roll around on a muddy beach while Koreans observe in disgust from a distance. |
There are just as many if not more Koreans, and the girls were happy to roll around with us foreigners. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
DeMayonnaise
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
If you like to party it's a good time.
If you're lame, you'll be bored. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
beckett
Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Location: Ireland
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Ok sounds like a good laugh !
Cheers for the helpful comments knew the thread would attract some snide remarks. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
toby99
Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Location: Dong-Incheon-by-the-sea, South Korea
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
It's a great time if you get hopped up on soju, though some people get a bit out of hand. Example, last year saw some foreigner wash his hands in a restaurant fish tank. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Gaber

Joined: 23 Apr 2006
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:00 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I've been twice and am yet to have a coherent memory after about 8 PM. Good times. Skipping it this year though, last time around the mogis fell in love with me and I ended up with John Merrick's legs |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
DeMayonnaise
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
toby99 wrote: |
It's a great time if you get hopped up on soju, though some people get a bit out of hand. Example, last year saw some foreigner wash his hands in a restaurant fish tank. |
THAT'S out of hand? You must be a lot of fun to party with... |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010 Location: Truck Stop Missouri
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
toby99 wrote: |
It's a great time if you get hopped up on soju, though some people get a bit out of hand. Example, last year saw some foreigner wash his hands in a restaurant fish tank. |
Not too sure I'm interested in this drunken festival, but other foreigners are going and expect me to go too.
How many got into fights or arrested in prior years? Seems like this festival is a recipe for theft, fights, indecent exposure, and police action that results being in the wrong place at the wrong time kind of trouble. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
toby99
Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Location: Dong-Incheon-by-the-sea, South Korea
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well, at least he didn't vomit or deficate in the tank, I suppose. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
NYC_Gal

Joined: 08 Dec 2009
|
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:26 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I went last year, a month after moving to ROK. It was fun, I met a lot of people, and there was also a cultural Korean show that went on whilst the foreigners drank themselves silly. I snuck in with a friend, though we were welcomed, really, because the Koreans were happy to share their culture with interested foreigners. The drums were amazing.
The mud is really thin, and you paint it all over yourself. You can also buy colored mud powder, which you add water to and paint designs. I went for the lord of the flies look, and one friend had us paint St George's cross all over him.
If you like seafood, it's great. You can sit at one of the multitude of fresh seafood shops, and they grill the stuff right at your table. Clams, oysters, conch, etc, all eaten without plates or bowls. Fun times.
Have fun! |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
windupbird
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
|
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 5:49 am Post subject: |
|
|
......
Last edited by windupbird on Thu Jul 08, 2010 5:51 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
|