Mood: Disgusted, appalled

I just had another WTF moment tonight, brought on by yet another astonishing korean exhibit I have come across within my 2 years time here. First of all, I want to start out by saying I am very reluctant in even sharing this with anyone because of just how completely bizarre and repulsive this absolutely is. but... I want to share the bad experiences of this place along with the good, so that you all may see for yourself every aspect of this wonderful place.
Anyways, I was looking through someone's blog and came across these pictures of a park here in korea called "Haesindang Park", that is very "questionable". Here's the story behind the park that I found on a korea tourism site:

"Haesindang Park has the nation’s largest theater aquarium, exhibits of folk materials showing the lifestyle of fishermen of the East Sea, an arboretum, and a park of sexual sculptures. There is an interesting bronze statue about a legend of a nearby village.* Legend of Aebawi and Haesindang – There once lived a young maid who was engaged. One day, the maid took her husband’s boat out to sea to harvest seaweed. Her husband dropped her off at a rock that was at a distance from the beach. After promising to pick her up later, he returned to the beach to do his work. Later, the weather changed, and brought with it strong winds and pummeling waves. The man couldn’t rescue his wife and she ultimately drowned. Since then, the village people caught no fish and some said that it was because of the dead maid. To soothe the spirit of the dead maid, the village people made several wooden carvings and held religious ceremonies on her behalf. After a while, the fish slowly returned and the villagers were able to live comfortably again. The place where the maid died was named Aebawi Rock and the building where the religious ceremony is held twice a year was named Haesindang. The ceremony is still honored today as a traditional folk event."

From what pictures I saw, the sculptures are just a bunch of giant male genitals, all throughout the park. Yuck. Who sculps genitals to honor a dead person? And the most disgusting part looking through the pictures of these sculptures, there are little korean kids sitting on top of the genitals and touching them. What is wrong with these people? Do they not have morals? What are their parents teaching them? It is soo sad. Children are supposed to be all innocent and protected from things like pornographic images. Anyways, I just thought I might share that thought and if you are interested in seeing what this park looks like here are the pictures: http://www.justenoughkorean.com/blog/2009/11/haesindang-park-penis-forest/ They are only scultures, don't worry you won't be seeing anything TOO graphic, but it is still very grose.