Boryeong
Daecheon Beach, Home Of The Boryeong Mud Festival Since 1998 · Boryeong, South Chungcheong
Boryeong is a coastal city on the Yellow Sea in South Chungcheong, and its Daecheon Beach, a broad curve of sand roughly 3.5 kilometres long, is the busiest beach on the west coast of Korea. It is famous for mud. The grey mineral-rich mud of the Boryeong tidal flats has been made into cosmetics since the 1990s, and in 1998 the city launched the Boryeong Mud Festival, held on the beach each July, when mud pools, mud slides, wrestling pits and concerts draw huge crowds, including many of the foreigners living in Korea. The rest of the year Daecheon is a classic Korean beach town, with a promenade, a skybike and zipline, sunsets over the sea and a harbour of shellfish grill restaurants. Since 2021 the Boryeong undersea tunnel, among the longest undersea road tunnels in the world, has linked Daecheon port to Wonsando and the Taean peninsula. Ferries leave for islands such as Sapsido, and at Muchangpo the sea parts on some low tides. Trains on the Janghang line and buses reach Daecheon from Seoul in about 2.5 to 3 hours.
Daecheon Beach, Sinheuk-dong, Boryeong, South Chungcheong, 33487, South Korea
NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The typical pattern: Daecheon Beach is open at all hours, with swimming allowed only in the lifeguard season, roughly July to August, from about 9 am to 6 or 7 pm. The Mud Festival runs for about ten days in July, with the experience zones open from morning to early evening and the last entry an hour or so before they close, and night events later. The mud experience hall, skybike and zipline open by day, with seasonal hours and some weekday closures. Ferries run to fixed timetables. The traps that ruin a day are arriving at low tide expecting to swim, missing the Muchangpo sea-parting window, no room on festival weekends, festival-weekend traffic, and a mud zone sold out by midday. Confirm current times before relying on them.