Boseong-gun Gains Spotlight as Tourist Destination for Traditional Tea and Tea Food Making Experience

Recharging Healing Energy with Family at Boseong Tea Fields

Launch of Boseong Tea Experience Tourism, a National Important Agricultural Heritage Site

Boseong-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it will promote the ‘2023 Agricultural Heritage Traditional Tea (Food) Making Experience Tourism’ to widely publicize the excellence of the terraced traditional tea agricultural system, designated as National Important Agricultural Heritage No. 11.

The ‘Agricultural Heritage Experience Tourism,’ conducted in connection with the 11th Boseong World Tea Expo, will take place from April to October. It plans to operate △ tea making experience, △ tea food experience, △ tea foot bath experience, and △ tea field walking and meditation experience.

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At the tea making experience site, programs such as tea leaf picking, tea processing, making green tea, rice cake tea, and blended tea, tea ceremony education, and gifting the tea you made are expected to offer urban visitors rest and healing experiences.

At the tea food making experience site, participants can make green tea chocolate, green tea bibimbap, black tea scones, and more, experiencing the infinite development potential of tea and tasting special K-food.

The tea foot bath experience takes place at the green tea foot bath cafe within Dahyang Art Valley, where visitors can relieve fatigue and stress with green tea bath additives and Boseong tea while enjoying healing.

The tea field walking and meditation experience includes viewing old tea trees, walking through wild tea fields, and tea smoke meditation, allowing visitors to feel the unique charm of Boseong along with beautiful scenery, and create memorable photos and precious memories, especially for the MZ generation.

Group tourists (20 or more people) wishing to participate can apply to the Gwangju Tourism Association to receive support for the experience fee of 20,000 KRW per person or vehicle rental fee (350,000 to 500,000 KRW depending on distance).

Currently, Boseong-gun operates 18 tea making experience sites, 4 tea food experience sites, 1 matcha experience site, 1 green tea foot bath experience site (including foot massage), and 1 tea culture experience site, providing popular programs for tourists every year.

Meanwhile, from April 27 to May 7, Boseong-gun will hold the 11th Boseong World Tea Expo under the theme ‘Millennium Boseong Tea, Embracing the World!’ as an integrated festival, featuring the Dahyang Grand Festival, nationwide sports events (ssireum wrestling, marathon, yacht), Beolgyo mudflat leisure boat competition, and Ilimsan azalea festival, among various other festivals.

Boseong = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Cheon-seok Park hss79@asiae.co.kr

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