Not for the immature.

My time is winding down here on my favorite place on earth, so I decided to make a bucket list.... It was hard. I did however manage to come up with a few...

• Haesindang park
• Seodaemun prison
• War Memorial
• Watch the Watershow bridge

This last weekend I managed to cross one off... Haesindang Park, known as Penis park to foreigners. You can probably see why this might have sparked my interest. :) 


Korea is a strange place. Television shows will fuzz out cigarettes, boobs, and any genitalia (but only the genitals, not the actual sex scenes. A few of these scenes are a quite more raunchy then they'd play in the US, too). I just also learned the blades of knifes are fuzzed out, too. Showing your shoulders is considered showing-too-much, yet you can wear shorts short enough that your butt cheeks are showing. Love motels are in abundance all over Korea. These are places couples, the married, the cheaters,  the drunks, and the just plain horny go to get their boogie on (yes, I just said that).  And then to learn they have a park full of Penis'?!! hmmm....


The story that's told come in many forms but this one I found a amusing so I stole it! It
s off Vago's blog found on Vagobond.com.
  
The story is that a young couple were engaged to be married in the fishing village of Samcheok and before they could be wed and the bride to be was given the pleasure of the penis on the wedding night, she was swept to sea and drowned, dying a virgin and without the penis she so desired.  After her death, the seas around the village stopped yielding fish. No one could figure out why.  One night, a drunk fisherman took a leak facing the water, exposing his sizable genitalia to the water (and presumably to the ghost of the virgin). Apparently, she liked what she saw since after that the fish were there again. The villagers, understanding intuitively what they needed to do, began exposing themselves regularly. They began to build larger than life statues of giant cocks to satisfy the nymphomaniac ghost. Over the years, the collection of phallic art was expandend, enlarged and the seashore became swollen with dicks.


I was planning to explore this park on my own (I needed a weekend on my own, since the last weekend was a failure) but Stephy decided to join in at the last minute, which I was actually grateful for because I decided a penis park was one of those things much more enjoyable when you have someone to laugh about it with. Plus my single handed head shots with a penis would have been a little weird. (I still would have done it , though).

This park is located in the south of Gang-won-do, in the town of Sinnam, It over looked the Pacific Ocean. It is by far one the most beautiful areas I've seen in Korea. It reminded me so much of the Oregon coast. The surrounding area was so green and vibrant....the air fresh, it was sooo nice! This area is also known for caves which I was really bummed I couldn't explore. The main one said it had a 30 minute steep inclined hike to the entrance. I've push my knee, but I know when something isn't a good idea...but I'm still bummed about it.  You'll find out later what we did instead.

The beach just below the park.

The cock rock.

The penis cannon which moved up and down for your viewing pleasure.

Insert your own caption here.

The fishermen showing their genitalia to the nymph.

Their view.

Nice try, Korea...

Small huts were set up to show scenes that...well, I really don't know.

Foreplay, maybe?

A creeper 

Korean Sex Ed kids!

 The park also had a fishing village folk museum which was just as interesting! 

An automated reenactment of the bride-to-be (left on the far rock to collect seaweed) drowning,  as the soon-to-be husband couldn't save her (the sea was too rough from a storm), calling for her from land.

Villagers using a net to catch dinner.

I never realize nor thought that squid (ink fish, maybe) were caught by hooks. 

How can this....

and this, not make you smile?

Notice how brown her boobs are? This is from men fondling them as they pass. No joke. There was a group of Asian men before us and each man laughed and made fun of the man before him, yet couldn't resist doing it himself! That's a lot of dirty hands! 

These pretty little things(not little at all) were everywhere! Stephy thought it was a fun game to point all of them out until I yelled at at her, but then I couldn't but help to do it myself....they were EVERYWHERE.  That is the actual size.

I don't know how people go without living with an ocean, as soon as I see it I get a sense of freedom. I can't explain it but I wouldn't trade it for anything!

A tomb...who's? I don't know.

So, remember when I said I couldn't explore the cave? Well....this is what we did. We went to the shit cake!!

What is the shit cake, you ask? It's a cave museum... but you can not tell me that doesn't look like a cake covered in poop icing. 


We were the only ones to explore this building. It was a bit odd considering the mass quantities of people everywhere you go. It took us about an hour. Cave are quite fascinating! I've done a few cenote (cave) dives in Central America but haven't experience too many, if any on land. Our entrance fee of 3,000w also included  an Imax showing of a cave within Samcheok that's unexplored by the public. If you haven't ever experienced a true Imax theater you should, they're pretty awesome. The only other one I've been to is at OMSI.  The slightly curved one that you are able to see new 3-D movies on, don't even come in the running for the experience that the spherical ones provide. The show we watched wasn't too one of the best I've seen but  it was still enjoyable. Plus, we were the only ones in the theater so that was an extra added bonus!


Haesindang Park


2 months, 9 days....
Thailand ticket purchased!


I apologize for the many typos I have, the longer I'm here the more I don't care..I know each blog gets worse and worse. I teach it all day, and correct it all night... the last thing I want to do is correct my own.