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This isn’t what I expected from a UNESCO World Heritage-listed folk performance. On stage, a butcher brandishes a pair of testicles, freshly cut from a slaughtered bull, and tries to sell them to the men in the audience as a virility aid. “You old gentlemen with your young wives,” he says. “You can’t do withoutContinue reading “Masks, monks and mayhem in Hahoe Village, South Korea”