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The Chinese word for 'Tea' which consists of characters of tea, tree, and budding leaves, imply people achieving harmony with the nature, and that harmony with the nature is the wisdom of the tea, which we all strive for.

Living is full of meetings.
Throughout our meetings there is tea.
Tea is part of our life.

The late Myung Won researched and restored the traditional Korea tea ceremonies. These ceremonies known as Royal Court tea ceremony, Temple tea ceremony, Daily life tea ceremony, and Guest Reception tea ceremony were presented for the first time in Korea, by the late Myung Won.

The late Myung Won carries on the traditional tea philosophy and culture to the modern times. Korea's tea philosophy of 'Tea and Zen (Seon) is One' was known to be passed from MajoDoil Grand Buddhist Master to NamjeonBoWon,
Chulkam and Sajasanmoon of DaeHungSa Temple. And then the philsophy was carried on through SeonSan Grand Master, AhAm HaeJung Master to Chou'i, the Korean saint of tea. The honorable Myung Won led the restoration of tea culture and Iljiam temple, the temple where Chou'i resided and practiced the Korean tea ceremonies, and the late Myung Won helped to carriy on the traditional tea philosophy to the modern times.

We need to take effort to preserve and practice the proper Korean traditional tea ceremonies and tea culture. Practicing Korean tea cermeony helps clarify one's thoughts, enhances health, builds discpline and helps us to show respect for one another, all of which represent the core values of our society.
We want this Myung Won homepage to help raise awareness of Korean tea culture and provide opportunities to get to know more about Korean tea and tea culture.
　


Chairwoman, Kim Eui-Jung is the proprietor of Intangible Cultural Asset of Seoul City 27, Royal Court Tea Ceremony. The Royal Court tea ceremony represents the finest form of Korean traditional tea ceremony and represents the beauty of Korean people and culture.
The Royal Court tea ceremony is an integrated art and culture as it encompassed tea, propriety, music, tea ware, and tea food. The Myung Won Cultural Foundation carries on this traditional form of the Korean heritage and culture.


Tea is like our face.
Reviving Korean traditional tea ceremony required persistence and very ardous work. But our passion for Korean heritage and culture persevered.
This pursuit for traditional tea ceremonies represent the search for the wisdom of our living. And restoration symbolizes the face of our future as the ceremonies and culture will blossom for the generations to come. Tea will make our living and our meetings with each other more meaningful and beautiful as tea helps to purifies and simplifies our living.
I wish all to think of tea and what it represents to build better society.
　


I want to thank you for your visit to the Myung Won Cultural Foundation.
Korea represents the 3rd in the world for having the most number of Internet addresse and Korea maintains 30 million internet subscribers. Internet helps us to reach the community and ommunicate and raise awareness of our culture.
We will continue to strive to understand and better use Internet for our communication to our members and to many who are interested in Korean tea culture.
Although some say there is no propriety in Internet, but we don't believe that is true. We will strive to develop proper etiquette and communicate the meaning and value of tea ceremony and tea culture to the Internet community. We will try our best to promote our tea culture tto the world wide community.

We will continue to be a good and vallued neighbor to you.

Thank you.