Prof. Brian Park became a member of Friendship by Tea (FBT) 40 years ago as a high school student and explored Korea’s 1,000-year tea culture. He held meetings on tea and wrote journals for a long time, and the records have been continuously maintained for 40 years.He majored in chemistry and agriculture in college. He acquired knowledge about tea cultivation and its post-cultivation components. It was a task that laid the foundation for research on tea.
He completed his master’s degree in forage crops at Seoul National University Graduate School 30 years ago. He studied the theory of sod culture for tea cultivation and forage crops that can be utilized. He mainly studied oats.

He discovered a method of organic tea cultivation that plants oats between tea shrubs in tea fields and knocks them down at the time of heading to prevent weeds that interfere with the growth of tea shrubs.He conducted a national research project of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs of the Republic of Korea as a research director 24 years ago. He developed organic tea production technology by applying Sod Culture for the first time in Korea using oats.He presented the results at the International Tea Conference in Japan (2000) with the topic of Sustainable agriculture of tea in Korea.It was the first time in the world that the concept of sustainable agriculture was applied to tea cultivation. After graduating from graduate school, he majored in applied statistics. It was for statistical research on tea. His graduation thesis was “A Study of Statistical Errors in Tea-Related Research Journals Published in Korea.”

He then majored in health hygiene. It was for studying the food hygiene field of tea. He obtained a Korean national food hygiene license and his graduation thesis was “A Study of Food Hygiene Improvements in Tea Production Factories in Korea.”He then majored in law. His graduation thesis was “A Study of the Reality of Tea-Related Laws in Korea.” In Korea, tea is considered a traditional medicine. At the age of 34, he was appointed as a professor in the Department of Traditional Medicine Development at Masan University.24 years ago, he completed “Structure and Categories of Teaics” and presented it at an international conference (2000. Japan).With this completion, the knowledge and technology of black tea with a history of 4,700 years secured logic and objectivity, and became a single discipline. That is Teaics. He applied its contents to university education. He was the first in Korea to develop “Theory on Teaics” as a major subject. In his first year as a university professor, he won first place in the university teaching method competition hosted by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and became the Best Teaching Professor in Korea.The teaching method at that time was the TISS Program, which effectively allowed learning the Chinese characters of the original texts of Korean traditional medicine books that included tea.In 2006, he developed the Tea Sommelier technique by applying the wine sommelier technique. This is also the first in the world. He was appointed as the head of the International Sommelier Department at Masan University and developed the Green Tea Master qualification, Tea Sommelier, and Tea Maker qualifications and taught them as major subjects. He wrote the Dictionay of Teaics alone 18 years ago.He was appointed as the head of the Department of Teaics at Seowon University.He proposed “Teaics as Regular Education in School (TRES)” and “Teaics Teacher System” at the International Green Tea Conference held in Korea 15 years ago.Then, 11 years later, the “Human Character Education Act (Korea Act No. 17472)” based on Teaics was enacted and implemented as a law of the Republic of Korea. 12 years ago, he developed the “Teaics as Correctional Education (TCE)” program and provided education at Jeju Prison.He has educated 5,800 prisoners so far, and has achieved the effect of preventing recidivism and helping them find normal jobs after returning to society.After being released from prison and returning to society, they continue to prepare, brew, and drink tea, and are playing a good role as healthy members of society.He developed the Korean Peninsula Peace Tea 4 years ago and contributed to peace on the Korean Peninsula, and received the Presidential Award from Korea. He is planning an internationalization project with universities in Turkey and Thailand for the production and operation technology of the Peace Tea.He developed the international social contribution aspect of green tea and black tea as an application program for green tea to activate lifelong education for Jeju Island residents, the island of peace, a month ago. He is currently the director of the International Teaics Institute, an observer for the FAO IGG on Tea, and a regular member of the ASEAN TEA Association. He holds 7 patents applying green tea, is a contributor to Chapter 8 of the Routledge Handbook of tea tourism, and developed the word Teaics as a common noun.