Ssanggye Tea.

Ssanggye Tea lists its Seongnam-si shop under the Hyundai department stores on its own store map: the Pangyo branch, at 20 Pangyoyeok-ro 146beon-gil in Baekhyeon-dong, Bundang-gu. The company says its teas are sold in Lotte, Hyundai and Shinsegae department stores around the country, and it runs an online shop alongside them. Its home is Hwagae-myeon in Hadong county, where it keeps a tea museum at the entrance to the cherry-blossom road that leads to Ssanggyesa temple, with a café and shop on the ground floor and the museum upstairs.

The name on many of the boxes is Kim Dong-gon, whom the house presents as a tea master and whose family, by its account, has lived in Hwagae for thirteen generations. The green teas are pan-fired in the traditional way: Sejak in 40 g of loose leaf or 20 pyramid bags, and the Ilsang Dawan line, which climbs from Jungno and Jakseol in 60 g to Ujeon and Cheonhachun in 30 g. Hadong leaf is also roasted into hojicha, there is a Pure Matcha and an organic matcha from the 2026 harvest, and organic green tea, brown rice green tea and cold-brew bags come by the fifty or the hundred.

Around the green tea, the catalogue turns to Korean infusions made without tea leaf: scorched rice tea, persimmon leaf, mulberry leaf, a Jirisan wild pear blend with hydrangea leaf and quince, and a cherry blossom tea blended with other flowers, in pyramid bags or boxes of fifty. The Teaclipse line adds twenty-bag boxes of Earl Grey, Muscat Black Tea, Apple Cinnamon, Peach Oolong and Rooibos Vanilla at one list price, and Fruit Hug pairs grapefruit with black tea. The online shop counts 145 tea products, gift sets and tea cans among them.