South Korea: Traditional tea with 1200 years of history, known all over the world

The Hadong Wild Tea Culture Festival was established to publicize the 1200-year-old Hadong tea domestically and internationally and to promote the industrialization of tea. With differentiated programs such as the Korea Tea Ceremony Contest, world tea culture exhibition and experience, and green tea workshop, during the five-day festival, it attracted more than 100,000 tourists and achieved an economic ripple effect of KRW 12 billion, contributing to the revitalization of the local economy. Hadong's traditional tea agriculture has been attracting attention from the world since it was registered as a world important agricultural heritage, and its exports are continuously expanding. Hadong wild tea is a representative specialized crop of Hadong-gun, where 1,066 farms in Hwagae and Akyang-myeon produce 1,261 tons a year in a cultivation area of 729 hectares, raising farm household income of 22.1 billion won (as of 2022). It is exporting to 10 countries including Germany, Canada and ...