Boseong Green Tea Plantation Light Festival (보성차밭 빛축제), December 19-20, 2014

Boseong is a city southwest of Busan and easy to get to by bus. The bus trip takes 3 hours and 40 minutes from Sasang Bus Terminal, and costs 17,700₩ ($14.65) one-way. 

To be honest, there isn’t much available at the Boseong Bus Terminal or in the city for entertainment or food -but you’re not there for the city. You’re there are the tea plantation!

You can either take the hourly bus that departs the bus terminal for Yulpo Beach and get off at the Green Tea Fields, or you can catch a taxi. A taxi will cost you around 12,000₩. I arrived Friday night and decided to check out the tea fields that night. The lights were beautiful. Your typical Korean festival snacks, such as warm chestnuts and corn, are plentiful.

The light exhibition is only until 10:00pm on a weekday, and midnight on a weekend- as part of Korea’s national energy saving policies. For more information, please check out the official website.

I decided to come back the next morning too. The tea fields are definitely worth seeing during the day for the views and then during the night for the lights. There are restaurants and shops in the area if you’d like to drink or buy green tea -and why not? I bought some tea for myself and gifts, so I could say, “I went to the fields this green tea is from!” Was surprisingly not expensive for being in a touristy area.

This year the light festival is running until January 24, 2016. I hope this encourages you to go check it out!