Nokdo is emblematic of a demographic crisis: Asia's fourth-largest economy saw its population drop for the first time last year as it became the world's fastest-ageing society with the lowest birth rate anywhere in 2020, according to the World Bank.

Fewer babies, ageing population- South korea faces demographic crisis

Some areas of the festival site allowed revellers to play in mud wrestling pits filled with grayish goo

580,000 locals, foreigners gather to 'get messy' on first day of South Korea's annual mud festival

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