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ART OF TEA

By: karen Halabi

Karen Halabi escapes the city for the peace and contemplation of a Korean tea house.

 

The ancient art of preparing tea is a deeply meditative process that forces one to calm down, relax and lose the worries of the day in the process of making and consuming tea.

 

In Korea, the art of tea preparation and the meditative ritual of the tea ceremony has been revived in the rash of tea houses that are springing up across the country.

 

I head to the forest outside Icheon to a Confucian retreat to don a hanbok and find out how it’s done………..

 

 

 

 
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