tavalon was just featured in the most respected korean business magazine today VIEW ARTICLE.  it basically featured two companies that are creating a new tea movement in korea.  its funny because the other tea company featured in this article is one of the largest tea companies in korea and i tried to expand them into the states before i started tavalon.  i basically hounded their director of operations to give me the rights for the usa back in 2004 while i was in korea and he straight up denied me.  so i said “if you’re not going to partner up with me then i’m going to have to start up my own company and go against you.”  he laughed at me and said “good luck but its not going to happen.”  well it happened and we took up 90% of the article!  should always be nice to people, what goes around comes around…  joking aside, there’s enough room for all of us in the tea industry, we just want the larger share of it