PHOTOS: South Koreans celebrate Boryeong Mud Festival at home amid Covid-19

The popular Boryeong Mud Festival, halted this year because of COVID-19, instead became an online celebration of soil, with people from around the country enjoying mud pools and mud packs in their homes - and streaming the dirty results. The annual mud extravaganza, in Boryeong on the coast 130 km (80 miles) southwest of the capital Seoul, is South Korea’s most popular festival for international visitors. They typically flock to the beach in their hundreds for mud slides, mud wrestling and other revelry. This year the city set up a large screen in a studio streaming images of hundreds of people, some with mud kits consisting of a mini-pool, mud packs, mud soaps and colourful mud powders. Daubed with blue, red and yellow mud powders, many watched singers perform online.

Updated on: Jul 20, 2020 2:24 PM IST

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A girl plays in a mud pool during the Online Boryeong Mud Festival at her home during a live streaming event, in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, July 18, 2020. (REUTERS)

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A girl plays in a mud pool during the Online Boryeong Mud Festival at her home during a live streaming event, in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, July 18, 2020. (REUTERS)