Hadong Wild Tea Cultural Festival
The annual Wild Tea Cultural Festival takes place at the first tea cultivation site, Chasibaeji, around Ssanggaesa Temple. Gather wild tea leaves, watch a traditional tea-ceremony with Buddhist priests and visit farm households that cultivate the product.
Hadong is regarded as the birthplace of Korea's tea culture. Products native to Hadong undergo rigorous processing and handling, consisting of nine gruelling, repetitious cycles of hand-picking, rubbing and drying, which starts during the rainy season and lasts until late May.
According to a historical account, during the Shilla Kingdom in 828, an envoy to the Tang Dynasty in China brought back tea seeds to plant. The plantation is believed to be the site of the first Korean tea harvest in the same year.
| Town Information: | Hadong |
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| Name: | Korea National Tourism Organisation (KNTO) |
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| Location: | South Korea |
| Address: | 10 Ta-dong, Chung-ku, Seoul 100-180, Republic of Korea |
| Email: | kntotic@knto.or.kr |
| Phone: | +82 (0) 2 729 9600 (UK +44 (0) 20 7321 2535) |
| Fax: | +82 (0) 2 771 8464 |
