While revelers at Glastonbury this year may have found the mud detrimental

to their music festival experience, over in South Korea a festival

dedicated entirely to the muck and the mire has just started.

The coastal city of Boryeong kicked off its 17th annual Mud Festival on Friday

and invites visitors to get absolutely covered in grim greenish-gray sludge.

Mud-wrestling pits, mud slides and even a mud prison

has been put up to help people get well and truly covered.

In fact, that's the entire point.

Guests are expected to turn up in clean clothes,

but leave looking like they 've just crawled out of a swamp.

People certainly seemed to be having fun,

even if they did have to keep wiping the ick from their eyes.

According to the organizers, last year 's event attracted over three million people,

a figure they 're expecting to match this year.

And they're off to a good start, as people from all over the world

have flown in to take part.

I 'm having a great time out here, getting to meet a lot of new friends,

getting muddiest as I don't know what.

I 'm going to come back next year.

It's a, it's a great time!