Peculiar places in KOREA


Today, as i was going thru certain webs, i came across something my friend Sharon shared with me about Korea. Have u all ever heard about the Penis Park??
Well it seems its kind of famous tourist sport.

Why does this place even exist? Being Korea, there’s a legend behind it. Instead of trying to paraphrase, I’ll just copy and paste from the Korean Tourism Page on the subject.

Legend of Aebawi and Haesindang – There once lived a young maid who was engaged. One day, the maid took her husband’s boat out to sea to harvest seaweed. Her husband dropped her off at a rock that was at a distance from the beach. After promising to pick her up later, he returned to the beach to do his work. Later, the weather changed, and brought with it strong winds and pummeling waves. The man couldn’t rescue his wife and she ultimately drowned. Since then, the village people caught no fish and some said that it was because of the dead maid. To soothe the spirit of the dead maid, the village people made several wooden carvings and held religious ceremonies on her behalf. After a while, the fish slowly returned and the villagers were able to live comfortably again. The place where the maid died was named Aebawi Rock and the building where the religious ceremony is held twice a year was named Haesindang. The ceremony is still honored today as a traditional folk event.


So wat the folks did the build statues of penis facing the sea so that more fish could be found and the fishermans would have more income.....


Thirty(ish) minutes South of the port town of Samcheok, you can discover one of the strangest places in Korea. Haesindang, or Penis Park.








And this people is surely something u should go se eif u planing for a trip to Korea..
Oh yeah the pics and the history i kind of copied it from one of this photographer who went to this place and he did a little explaining there so if u wanna read more u can go to his pagehttp://orcim.org/2009/12/04/peculiar-places-of-korea-penis-park/

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