대학생의 차문화 교육에 대한 관심도 연구

A Study on University Student’s Concerns on Tea Culture Education : Based on Four-year Universities in Daegu city

The purpose of this study was to analyze university student's concerns on tea culture education. The study tried to present basic materials for the facilitation of tea culture education in universities. The study results were summarized as follows: 1. The ultimate purpose of tea culture education for university students is to help students to purify their sentiments, improve physical and mental health, cultivate their characters, and behave appropriately through teaching tea culture and its etiquettes. That is, tea culture education helps students to create and maintain good relationship with people nearby. In addition, tea culture education also aimed at inheriting and developing traditional tea culture that makes harmony with modern culture. 2. Tea culture educational contents concerned by university students constituted the following 16 items, which were put in order of the students' preference for what they wanted to learn as to tea culture: tea serving, tea drinking, the method of selecting good quality tea, the method of brewing various kinds of tea, making tea snacks, ingredient and benefits of tea, Oriental tea, distinguishing various kinds of tea, manufacturing tea from tea leaves, Western tea, tea substitutes, tea utensils, the history of tea, spirits reflected in tea, exploring tea cultural site, and demonstration of appropriate tea drinking manner. This should be considered when composing tea educational contents. 3. University students concerned that tea culture education include both explanations of theories and practices using adequate tea utensils based on tea culture education experts' useful educational contents to make it easier to understand tea culture. In addition, many of the students also demanded that tea culture education related medium be provided.