Local residents live on agriculture and forest industries, such as rice, potato, vegetables, bamboo and tea-tree oil cultivation.

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The line is based on antioxidant-rich green tea, bamboo sap, and red ginseng, which the company cultivates at its own farms on Jeju Island off the coast of Korea.

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Intrigued by some bamboo growing outside his office, he's tried adding bamboo leaves to a green tea and spicing it with ginger.

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