Boseong County Designated as Specialized Training Institution for 'Tea Literature Class'

Job Training Program for Education Professionals to Be Operated

Boseong County, Jeollanam-do announced on the 4th that the Jeollanam-do Environmental Disease Prevention and Management Center, located within the Boseong Jeamsan Natural Recreation Forest, has been designated as the first special field training institution for 2025. Accordingly, the county plans to operate a “Tea Literature Class” job training program for educators and education professionals nationwide.

The Jeonnam Environmental Disease Prevention and Management Center located in Jeamsan Natural Recreation Forest, Boseong County, has been designated as the first special field training institution for 2025. Provided by Boseong County

The job training will be conducted as a two-day, one-night course from April to August 2025, with a total of five sessions (30 participants per session, 150 participants in total).

The program is centered around healing activities using green tea, a specialty product of Boseong, and includes various activities to promote mental health and physical relaxation, such as ▲Tea and Literature (the encounter of film and tea) ▲Woodcraft (wood burning - making a cypress tissue case) ▲Tea and Forest (forest experience) ▲Tea Plantation Healing Tour (tea leaf picking and tea making) ▲Meditation using tea.

In addition, to ensure practical application in schools, the program offers curriculum-linked education, various teaching aid utilization methods, and interdisciplinary curriculum programs for teachers.

The Jeollanam-do Environmental Disease Prevention and Management Center, operated directly by Boseong County, has been running special field job training for educators nationwide since its opening in 2015, and has received positive reviews for its practical, field-oriented education.

A county official stated, “The annual training for educators helps widely promote the program and encourages participation from tourists, greatly contributing to the activation of the center.”

Meanwhile, the center offers an optimal healing environment for participants, equipped with eco-friendly accommodation, Maekbansuk and Hwangto jjimjilbang (sauna), oxygen rooms, green tea baths, healing meditation rooms, and outdoor foot baths. It has also been selected as an “Excellent Wellness Tourist Destination (Healing and Meditation category)” for six consecutive years since 2019, and is recognized as a training space where forest bathing and natural healing are possible.

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