A Study on The Transmission Ways of Korean Tea Manufacture Based on the Case Analyses of Intangible Cultural Heritage Related to Eastern Asia s Tea Manufacture

The purpose of this article is to find the ways in which the process of tea manufacturing is transmitted in Korea. It is based on case studies of the intangible cultural heritage related to Eastern Asia s tea manufacture. Korea designated tea manufacture as a national intangible cultural heritage without any cultural heritage holders in 2016. In Japan, the holders of the intangible cultural heritage related to tea manufacture in the Kyoto and Shizuoka prefectures have changed from individuals in the 1960s to groups since the 1980s, whereas China designated 12 individual holders of the intangible cultural heritage of Wuyi rock tea, jasmine tea, green tea, oolong tea, brick tea, and white tea in 2009 and 2012. In the first part of this study, which looked at the academic and historical ways in which this culture was transmitted in Korea, the written and oral records pertaining to the history of Korean tea manufacture were investigated and raising recognition of improvement rather than original form of tea manufacture was suggested. The second part of this study, which looked at the artistic and local ways in which this culture was transmitted in Korea, discussed the designation of tangible cultural assets to preserve utensils for tea manufacture, the holding of competitions between each local tea making, the protection of local species of tea trees, and the connections between the landscape performance and dark tourism through the tea making contents and national tea cultural festivals.