It was not my original intention to place O’sulloc Tea Museum as our last itinerary on Jeju Island. We exchanged it with World Automobile Jeju Museum as it was too rushed to visit this in the evening.

O’sulloc Tea Museum

After parking our car, we had to walk up a slope to reached the entrance. I was surprised to find only a large room as the “museum”. I do like the clean display and lighting though and we could read some English information about the origins of tea in Jeju Island.

The row of ancient tea wares were interesting and we got to learn how different the Korean’s tea leaves were, from Japanese and Chinese tea leaves. 

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Free Tea- Tasting

Next, we walked into a brightly lit room with a long line of visitors. I was curious what they were queuing up for, until we found out from the staff that he was giving out cups of tea for free sampling!

It was a good strategy, because I found the tea really refreshing and fragrant! We ended up searching for the tea we just tasted (in season, freshly picked) and bought some.

Dar queued before me too and tried the brewed green tea for the first time (usually just drink bottled ones). He commented that he enjoyed the tea too.

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Shopping of O’Sulloc Jeju Tea

Next, it was shopping time! As I love tea, we often buy tea for our own consumption when we visit a country. Thus, we had a great time browsing through the selection of O’sulloc Jeju Tea on different shelves. It was a great experience as even though we could not taste the tea, we could smell the samples from small clear bottles they placed in front of each selection! Such an innovative approach for shoppers. This gave us the confidence to purchase the tea, knowing how they were like.

See what we ended up with? A huge basket of tea after smelling through all the different samples. I love their packaging! We bought green tea bags, O’sulloc green tea milk spread (very famous), green tea leaves packed individually and also in a big bottle (different season tea). We also bought two packs of Samdayeon Jeju Tangerine tea, as we smelled the sample and the fragrance was amazing (it’s a mixture of black tea and tangerine bits from Jeju Island). When I brewed it at home later, I love it so much that it became my daily tea. My only regret was not buying more! (Would be expensive to buy online now…sigh)

By the way, take note that after spending so much on tea, we could claim back our Tax Refund (tiny amt but better than nothing). Just go to the counter at the airport and produce your receipt, so do keep it safely! 

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Famous Green Tea Food and Drinks at O’Sulloc Tea Cafe

I had read a lot about the food at the O’sulloc Cafe and knew we just had to try the food. Since I cannot eat the cakes, we ordered two cake rolls for Vin and Dar and shared the green tea ice-cream. Dar wanted a caramel one so one cake was brown in colour and the other was the original green tea cake. According to them, it was delicious! 

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O’Sulloc Tea Plantation

We viewed, we tasted, we shopped and we ate. Finally, it’s time to visit the outdoor for the tea plantation!

To do that, we had to cross the road first as it’s opposite to the O’sulloc building. Before going in further, there was a nice photo backdrop at the entrance for us to take a group picture. 

Walking in, it was just rows and rows of tea shrubs. I took it like an educational tour to show our kids what the tea plants look like. As it was getting hot, we did a leisure stroll, took some pictures and went back to our rental car. 

[ Summary ]

The entire Jeju O’Sulloc is quite big and consists of a tea house, a garden and workshops in its Innisfree house (their cosmetic brand). The soap-making workshop sounds interesting! Alas, we did not visit those as we lacked time but our general experience there was good. We had a great time tasting tea, buying tea products and learning how tea looked like originally and processed. 

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