Master Kim Shin Ho’s story is linked with the monks and scholars who, for centuries, preserved tea culture in the mountains of South Korea’s most rugged province. He is considered one of the pillars of the re-birth of Korean tea in the late 20th century and a teacher to a vast number of young producers in the area. When he is not making poetry in the form of tea, he carves wood, practices traditional calligraphy or goes fishing in nearby streams.