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A city in South Korea has a new attraction to its cultural landscape - the world's first "toilet theme park". The Restroom Cultural Park in the city of Suwon is a huge hit with locals and tourists alike. The latest tourist site is to the memory of former city mayor Sim Jae-duck, affectionately as "Mr Toilet". He the toilet is a very important and under-appreciated aspect of world culture. Visitors to the park can its toilet-bowl-shaped exhibition hall as well as dozens of bronze statues in various toilet positions. They can even sit on Mr Sim's original toilet, which a full-length glass door that up when it is being used.

Suwon has become well known for the promotion of toilet culture. The city toilet-related artwork from around the world to its galleries. It famously the Golden Poop Art Festival – a celebration of one of the calls of nature. The city also dozens of its own public toilets as tourist attractions on its website. Sim Jae-duck's own giant, toilet-shaped house, now a museum, should be the must-see for enthusiasts. Mr Sim's with toilets supposedly because he was born in the smallest room of his mother's house. He said in 2007: "The toilet…can humankind from diseases [and is] a place for introspection. The toilet is also a central living place that culture."