An old folk song from Hadong County in South Gyeongsang Province evinces the importance of tea in Korean culture. It goes like this: the first budding tea leaves are for the local governor, those from the next round of budding are for parents and those from the last budding of the season are for husbands; then, keep the withered old leaves separately as they come in handy to make medicine for children when they have tummy aches, hoping they grow up healthy and one day lead the remote, mountainous village.