May Festival - Boseong Green Tea Festival

     Boseong province is the largest tea producing region in Korea and produces a wide variety of specialty teas. 
     Each spring visitors come from far and wide to wander through the vibrant expanse of green tea leaves. Aside from the festival’s entertaining and informative tea exhibitions, visitors can further experience the deep-seeded tea culture by taking part in tealeaf gathering and tea making. Food made from the famous Boseong’s tea will also be available to sample / purchase as well as a selection of the area’s specialty teas.

Programs :

* Official Events – Evening Festival (The Night of Many Scents), Downtown Parade, Torch Relay, Pre-Opening Ceremony, Celebratory Performance & Fireworks

* Illimsan Mountain Royal Azalea Festival - Sansinje Ritual, Family Mt. Climbing, Sampling Green Tea and Sharing Green Tea Rice Cake in pursuit of Unification , Tying “Love Mt” Ribbons

* Exhibitions – Exhibition of Proper Attire for Tea Etiquette, World’s Fine Tea Cups Exhibition, Exhibition “The Life of Tea”, Exhibition of Boseong Tea Collection & Special Offers, Boseong Tourist Photo Exhibition, Environmental Photo Exhibition, local specialties & produce, Exhibition of House Plants, Exhibition of Forestry Equipment, Exhibition of Illimsan Mt. Ecological Samples, Exhibition of Wild Flowers, photo show titled “Love Nature”

* Hands-on Experience Programs – picking tea leaves, making tea, making tea bowls, cooking tea food, making green tea kimchi, Green Tea Beauty Health, making green tea rice cake, planting your own green tea seedlings, writing a family motto, celebrity ‘meet and greet’ in promotion of green tea production, Trying out Nokdon (green tea pork), free sampling of green tea, making green tea soap, baking and sampling of green tea bread, trying out Hanji art craft, bus tour to green tea field

Period : 05.01.2010 ~ 05.05.2010

Location : Green tea fields

Telephone :

- Korea Travel Phone +82-61-1330 (English, Japanese, Chinese)
- For more info 061-850-5223~4 (Korean)

Fax : +82-61-850-5577

Sponsors / Management : Boseong-Gun 

Transportation :

From Yongsan Station, take a train headed towards Boseong (9:45am, 1 train daily / est. travel time of 5hrs 40min) and get off at Boseong Station.

From the Boseong Station Exit, you will see an overpass. Cross the overpass to reach the bus stop from where you can take a city bus to the green tea fields (6:00am~8:30pm, departs every 1hr 10min / est. travel time of 15min). You can also take a taxi from Boseong station to the green tea fields, which should take approximately 10mins.

Homepage : dahyang.boseong.go.kr (Korean only)