Jeju Loveland () (also known as Love Land) is an outdoor
sculpture
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park which opened in 2004 on
Jeju Island in
South Korea
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. The park is focused on a theme of
sex
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, running
sex education
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films, and featuring 140 sculptures representing humans in various
sexual positions
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. It also has other elements such as large
phallus
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Any object that symbolically—or, more precisel ...
statues, stone
labia, and hands-on exhibits such as a "masturbation-cycle". The park's website describes the location as "a place where love oriented art and eroticism meet".
Background
During the 1970s,
Jeju Island became a popular honeymoon destination for Korean couples, due to the island's warm climate and
Cold War-era restrictions on overseas travel. Many of the couples had wed because of arranged marriages, and the island also became known for being a center of
sex education
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. According to an article in Germany's ''
Der Spiegel
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'' 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.
In 2002, graduates of
Seoul
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's
Hongik University began creating sculptures for the park, which opened on November 16, 2004. Encompassing an area the size of "two soccer fields", all of the sculptures can be viewed in approximately one hour, and there is an additional monthly rotating exhibit featuring works by different Korean artists.
Visitors are required to be at least 18 years old, and a separate play area is available for minors while adults visit. The play area is themed on
anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
.
See also
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Haesindang Park
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Love Land (China)
Love Land would have been the first sex theme park in China; the PRC Government suspended its construction in Chongqing in May 2009 and ordered it demolished for being vulgar and explicit. The park was to include displays of giant genitalia an ...
*
Chao Mae Tuptim
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The Chao Mae Tuptim shrine ( th, ศาลเจ้าแม่ทับทิม, , also known as Penis Shrine) is a phallic shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, located behind the Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort Bangkok near the bank of the K ...
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Sex museum
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Since the 1990s, these ...
References
English-language version of official website(also available in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese)
August 11, 2006, ''
Der Spiegel
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''
External links
Photo gallerySatellite view of park
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Parks in Jeju Province
Sex museums
Sexuality in South Korea
2004 establishments in South Korea
Sculpture gardens, trails and parks in Asia
Erotic art