Boseong County, South Korea, and community media have started a tea exchange between Tsushima and South Korea. Joint exhibition at “National Tea Summit in Tsushima”.

South Korea’s Boseong County and community media begin tea exchange between Tsushima and South Korea. Joint exhibition at “National Tea Summit in Tsushima”. ​ Community Media Co., Ltd. Press release: October 28, 2024 Boseong County, South Korea, and community media have started a tea exchange between Tsushima and South Korea. Joint exhibition at “National Tea Summit in Tsushima”. Boseong is surrounded by mountains in southern Korea and is home to tea plants that are said to have been introduced during the Tang Dynasty. South Korea’s leading tea producing area has started exchanges in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture.
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The National Tea Summit in Tsushima will be held in Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture for two days, November 2nd (Sunday) and November 3rd (holiday month), 2025. This summit, now in its 22nd year, is not only a place where you can sample Japanese black tea brewed directly by the producers and purchase tea leaves, but also a place where local black tea fans from all over the country can gather and interact with each other. Our members, who are also part of the executive committee for this summit, have been preparing for about a year to bring the theme of the event, “Local Tea Tsushin Envoy,” to fruition in collaboration with Boseong County, South Korea. The ruins of Kanaishi Castle, which is also a Japan Heritage cultural property, is the residence of the head family of the Tsushima domain, which was used as a guest house to entertain Korean envoys, but there are many other historical heritage sites on Tsushima Island where you can feel the presence of the Korean envoys. It remains. In recent years, the Hitakatsu-Busan route will be reopened in February 2023, and the Izuhara-Busan route will be restarted in April 2024, and tourists and academic exchanges from South Korea will once again be active on a daily basis. It’s becoming. Yōshu Amemori explains in his book “Records of Korean Envoys: A History of Peacebuilding and Cultural Exchange between Japan and Korea from the 17th to the 19th
Centuries,” which has been registered as a Memory of the World by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In order to make use of the spirit of “not deceiving each other, not fighting each other, and interacting with each other in truth” through tea exchanges at the Local Tea Summit, as the first overseas exhibitor in the history of the summit, we would like to express our gratitude to the Boseong County Office and the producers. We were able to win the bid. The company we will be visiting Tsushima for this time is Hoko Tea Farm, which not only produces black tea, but also produces green tea, fermented tea, and Zencha using hand-made tea leaves. At the summit, you can sample delicious, fragrant tea brewed with pesticide-free tea leaves directly from the producers into tasting cups.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/88360/12/88360-12-6c26c779d823fece7b3b8fc47cbd24b4-1574×1039.jpg It is known that during the Edo period, when national isolation was ordered, trade doors were open in four areas: Nagasaki and the Netherlands, Satsuma and Ryukyu, Matsumae and Ezo, and Tsushima and Korea. The year 2017 is still remembered in various places, especially among the people of Tsushima and South Korea, as a symbol of peace, which is rare in the world as countries that share borders do not go to war with each other. In addition, on Friday, October 11, 2020, he visited Hojo County, and community media and Hojo County will collaborate to continue tea exchanges in Tsushima City and various parts of Nagasaki Prefecture. We agreed to proceed. Dancha, which was introduced to Japan from mainland China during the Tang Dynasty, has been passed down to the present day in Boseong as a traditional Korean tea in the form of Qiancha. Currently, it is the largest producer of tea leaves in Korea, but it is also a place that values ​​history and tradition and is connected to the roots of Japanese tea.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/88360/12/88360-12-88b086aaccce699652b11e8066942039-1551×1056.jpg <22nd National Tea Summit in Tsushima Overview> [Admission fee] Free (tickets are required for tasting at each booth) [Sponsor] National Tea Summit IN Tsushima Executive Committee Secretariat ■Official website https://jikocha-tsushima.com/ ■Event date ・November 2nd (Sat) 13:00-16:00 (1st day) ・November 3rd (Sunday) 10:00-15:00 (2nd day) ■Venue Kamitsuma area, Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Toyoko Inn Hitakatsu Event Space (1217-5 Nishidomari, Kamitsuma Town) ■Admission fee Free (ticket required for tasting at each booth) ・2-day premium drinking comparison ticket (with original commemorative tasting cup) 2,500 yen including tax ・Ticket valid on the day (with original paper cup) 600 yen including tax ■Sponsor Nationwide Tea Summit Tsushima Executive Committee ■Sponsorship Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture Tsushima Promotion Bureau, Tourism and Products Association, Tsushima City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tsushima Agricultural Cooperative Association, Toyoko Inn Tsushima Hitakatsu, Kyushu Yusen Co., Ltd., Tsushima Airport Terminal Building Development Co., Ltd., Tsushima Shimbun Limited Partnership, Stocks Companies Juhachi Shinwa Bank, Community Media Co., Ltd. (Tsushima City CATV/FM Tsushima), JETRO Nagasaki, Tsushima City International Exchange Association, All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd./ANA Akindo Co., Ltd., Nagasaki Prefecture International Exchange Foundation td> ■Official SNS ・X (old Twitter) https://x.com/tsushimajikocha ・Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jikocha.tsushima/ ■What is the National Tea Summit? The “National Tea Summit” is held once a year (usually around autumn) in Japan’s local tea (domestically grown and
domestically produced black tea) producing regions, and is held with dozens of local tea producers from all over the country. It is the largest festival in Japan that only focuses on local tea, and hundreds to thousands of tea lovers from all over the country gather together. Producers bring local tea and set up booths. Visitors can sample local black tea, talk with producers, and purchase their favorite local black tea. There, connections between producers and fans are created and maintained, and knowledge and information are exchanged and exchanged at lectures and social gatherings, contributing to the inheritance and development of Japan’s local tea culture. ■What is Tsushima, a remote island in Nagasaki Prefecture Tsushima was described as Tsushima Province in the “Gishi Wajinden” written at the end of the 3rd century, and is an island that connected the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago. During the Edo period, in order for the Tsushima clan to conduct diplomacy and trade with Korea, there was a settlement in Busan, Korea called Choryang Wakan, which was home to the Japanese retainers of the Tsushima clan at the time. Just as the Netherlands used Dejima, Nagasaki, as a place for diplomacy and trade, Japan has places with similar roles overseas, and Tsushima has played an important role in diplomacy with the continent. You can see. Taking advantage of its geographical location as being closest to the Korean peninsula, Tsushima has been the gateway to cutting-edge exchanges with other countries, serving as a window for conveying culture such as stone age culture, bronze age culture, tea culture, and religion from the continent to Japan. There is also a monument commemorating the landing of Saicho (767-822), the founder of the Tendai sect and known as “Dengyo Daishi”, in the Aren district of Tsushima. Saicho traveled to Tang Dynasty (present-day China) on an envoy to study the Tendai sect, and when he returned to Japan the following year, he arrived in Tsushima and is said to have brought tea to Tsushima. ■Premium Ticket What is the original commemorative tasting cup Those who have the original commemorative tasting cup, which will be distributed to those who have purchased a premium ticket, can sample for free at any of the booths for two days during the summit period. In order for visitors to experience Tsushima as an island of stone culture, we used Tsushu feldspar from the mountains of Izuhara in the tasting cup. By using this cup, you will be able to encounter tea leaves, learn about the thoughts of the producers, and experience everything from purchasing tea leaves directly to brewing tea once you return home. I am thinking of doing so. This tasting cup was fired in Hasami, a ceramic town in Nagasaki Prefecture. Mt. Nakao in Hasami is home to one of the world’s largest climbing kiln ruins, and we were able to create this cup shape using the techniques cultivated in this region over many years. As a result of repeated prototyping so that multiple types of Japanese black tea can be tasted, the cup is beautifully white and has a stackable design. [Inquiries regarding this press release] Community Media Co., Ltd. Iori Yoneda mail: info@communitymedia.co.jp TEL: 095-829-5525