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South Korea Muds Up

South Korea Muds Up

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Jun 05, 2012
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Lee Si-Woo, Mayor of Boryeong City in South Korea, has extended an invitation to one and all for what has to be one of the strangest rites for a society as normally buttoned up as Korea is, at least on the surface. This is after all a country where public nudity is verboten and even kissing in public is liable to invite stares.

It is the 2012 Boryeong Mu…

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