Many foreign people who visited Korea in the 19th century wrote that Koreans had hardly any tradition of tea drinking and that only influential people drank tea from China and then only a little.
19世紀に訪れた外国人は朝鮮に喫茶の風習がほとんどなく、有力者が中国産の茶を僅かに飲む程度であったと口をそろえて書き残している。