Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each other numbered blanks.

THE BORYEONG MUD FESTIVAL

The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which (21)_________ place during the summer in Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South Korea. The first Mud Festival was staged in 1998 and, by 2007, the festival (22)_________ 2.2 million visitors to Boryeong.

The mud is taken from the Boryeong mud flats, and trucked to the Daecheon beach area, where it is used as the centrepiece of the 'Mud Experience Land'. The mud is considered rich (23)______minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics. The festival was originally conceived as a marketing vehicle for Boryeong mud cosmetics and other cosmetic brands.

(24)_________ the festival occurs over a period of around two weeks, it is most famous for its final weekend, (25)__________ is popular with Korea's western population. The final weekend of the festival is normally on the second weekend in July.