SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of people in their 20s and 30s are enjoying tea as their hobby, finding inner peace during the process of brewing tea while discovering new types of satisfaction. On Instagram, there are more than 110,000 hashtags for “tea” in the Korean language and some 70,000 hashtags [...]
BOSEONG, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Boseong County in South Jeolla Province announced on Monday that more than 280,000 people visited the Boseong Tea Plantation Light Festival, which came to a close recently. Boseong is considered the birthplace of the commercial tea industry and is the largest producer of tea in the country. The festival [...]
ROME, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization on Thursday designated a site in Hadong, a town in South Korea’s South Gyeongsang Province, as one of its world agricultural heritage systems in recognition of the site’s traditional tea-growing method that maintains biodiversity. At a ceremony to mark the designation of Globally [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Exports of South Korean green tea soared 64.6 percent in the first 10 months of the year from a year earlier on the back of rising demand from Asia and Europe, customs data showed Friday. A total of US$3.67 million worth of green tea was shipped abroad in the [...]
HADONG, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Hadong is an area in Gyeonggi Province famous as the first tea plantation site in Korea. Despite modern methods including the use of machines for processing, Hadong also produces tea using traditional methods, which results in higher-grade teas. This year’s festival, which marks its 20th anniversary, will take place from [...]