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Jeju Loveland (also known as Love Land) is an outdoor sculpture park which opened in 2004 in South Korea. The park is focused on a theme of sex, running sex education films, and featuring 140 sculptures representing humans in various sexual positions. It also has other elements such as such as large phallus statues, stone labia, and hands-on exhibits such as a "masturbation-cycle." The park's website describes the location as, "a place where sexually-oriented art and eroticism meet."
After the Korean War, the island became a popular honeymoon destination for Korean couples, due to the island's warm climate. Many of the couples had wed because of arranged marriages, and the island also became known for being a center of sex education. According to an article in Germany's Der Speigel magazine, in the late 1980s journalist and travel writer Simon Winchester reported that some hotel employees on the island performed as "professional icebreakers." In the evenings, the hotel would offer an entertainment program featuring erotic elements, to help newlyweds relax.
I visited this place during the summer of 2007. After a day of climb in Halla-san, i spent my late afternoon in this park. It was quite foggy that time so the images i took using my Nikon E4800 were a bit hazy. I love how art was expressed in this way, despite the known traditional and ultraconservative nature of Koreans. It was a weird yet "educational" trip.
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