Creating a field of pure white buckwheat flowers in South Korea

(Cheongju = Yonhap News) A buckwheat flower field has been established on 22,000 square meters in Sessu-ri, Nangseong-myeon, Sangsang-gu, Cheongju-si. Buckwheat, which was sown here in the middle of last month by the Suseo-ri Village Promotion Committee, has recently started to bloom. When the white buckwheat flowers are in full bloom, it looks like it has snowed here. It is expected that the expansive buckwheat flower field will be reminiscent of a landscape painting in harmony with the nearby mountains. The creation of a buckwheat flower field was promoted as one of the Cheongju City’s landscape conservation direct payment system. This project is to provide direct payments to farms that grow landscape crops to ...