Boseong Green Tea Festival

Celebrating its 49th year, the Boseong Green Tea Festival will be held this year under the theme of Boseong Matcha. In today's fast-paced world, where the need for rest and rejuvenation is greater than ever, visitors can recharge both body and mind amid the tranquility of the region's lush green tea fields. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of emerald tea plantations, the festival offers a variety of tea-themed experiences, including tea leaf picking, tea making, creating and enjoying personalized tea blends, and green tea therapy programs. Through these immersive activities, visitors can fully experience the physical, emotional, and mental benefits of green tea.

Program

1. Main program
- Afternoon Tea Field (Grand Tea Party): a premium tea party where you enjoy Boseong tea and a dessert course of local specialties for 90 minutes with sweet music. A signature program of the Boseong Dahyang Festival, available by advance reservation or on-site registration
- Tea-making experience: a program in which visitors roast tea leaves themselves in the traditional way to complete the tea, understand the tea-making process and experience the deep flavour of Boseong tea
- Moon Dyed in Boseong: a special backpacking stay at the festival grounds! An all-in-one festival accommodation package that includes a welcome kit, stargazing at the Boseong County Astronomy Science Museum and a bathing pass to the Seawater Green Tea Center.
- Boseong Tea Master Cup: a festival competition in which drinks based on Boseong tea are developed and the best food and beverage is selected through evaluation of visuals, taste and aroma, creativity, marketability and usability, followed by a tasting session of the winners' creations
- Boseong Tea-musical 100 (Green Tea Olympics): adding a dash of escape and fun to the festival! Team black tea vs team matcha, a thrilling 50-50 contest! A large-scale participatory Olympic program where all visitors join one team and take part themselves
(Boseong tea field forest healing meditation, trekking and green tea foot bath, green tea snack cooking class, afternoon tea and picnic, hanok stay and picnic, private picnic camping)
2. Side Programs
- Tea culture events: Dahyang flag parade, Dasinje rite, live commerce, matcha roasting experience, etc.
- Competitions: Boseong Tea Master Cup, National Student Tea Etiquette Competition
- Exhibitions: tea culture room, history room, life room, Boseong potters' lifestyle exhibition, eco book lounge, Malaysia culture hall, Green Dahyang Emptiness, world tea botanical garden, etc.
- Performances: Boseong Tea-Concert, Green Concert, Singing Matcha Ssi (local singers), visitor recreation, etc.
3. Experience Programs
- Boseong, Nice to Meet You: mission tour, writing wish cards, drinking your own tea, etc.
- Boseong, Let's Enjoy: making tea, making matcha cocktails, making green tea soap, making keyrings, kids zone (air bounce), etc.
- Boseong, Let's Heal: tea leaf picking, green tea therapy, green tea foot bath, making tea cocktails, tea field treasure hunt, tea field snap photos, nighttime backpacking "Moon Dyed in Boseong", etc.
4. Other (food, etc.)
- Boseong tea sales hall, Boseong specialty food booths, local restaurants, franchise zone, pop-up stores, agricultural specialty market, etc.