This South Korean Giant Penis Park Is Worth Your Travel Checklist

The Winter Olympics, now underway in Pyeongchang, South Korea, introduced the world to complex sports such as snowboarding, luge, curling, figure skating and alpine skiing. It also tells us the inspiring story of Mark McMorris and Markus Schairer, and teaches us why we shouldn’t lose hope or give up.

But, most importantly, what the 2018 Winter Olympics showed us is that there is a nearby park (less than an hour away) full of penises, as many as 50 giant penises. For obvious reasons, Haeshindang Park, popularly known as “Penis Park”, has become a favorite tourist destination.

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From penis benches, penis totem poles, penis wind chimes to penis canons; we bet you have never seen or will ever see so many penis in your life or anywhere else in the world.

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While you can sit comfortably on the penis bench or click photos next to the giant penis statue, visitors are warned not to board the canon as we’re sure being blown away by a giant penis will be the last thing you want to remember you .

South Korea is not the only country that worships the penis, Japan also has a dedicated festival. Every year, Japan celebrates “Kanamara Matsuri” aka the Penis Festival, where people take part in a rally with giant phallus statues carried on their shoulders.

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The reason Japan celebrates the holiday is the legend of a sharp-toothed demon that lives inside a woman’s vagina and castrates the man she tries to have sex with. The demon died after the woman used the iron dildo (because they couldn’t call it a dildo at the time).

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South Korea’s “Penis Park” was also born from a legend about a virgin and a fish. The bizarreness of this legend is simply indescribable. In the face of this story, even Japanese legends make sense.

So, legend has it that a virgin was caught in a storm and drowned while waiting for her boyfriend. After her death, the villagers couldn’t catch a single fish, and it was believed that it was caused by the woman’s ghost. This seems to be the best explanation, right?

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But a fisherman turns out to be an accidental hero after urinating in the sea, and he finds all the fish. The villagers thought it was appeasing the virgin ghost’s penis and started worshiping it… wait, what?

That’s the story behind the unusual “penis park,” but Koreans’ penis obsession apparently goes beyond that. Unless you forgot to pay your internet bills and missed the memes circulating on social media, you’ve definitely come across these nude statues of penis heads all over the internet in all their glory.