NCL launches Taiwan Corner at Seoul Metropolitan Library

2023/07/14

A Taiwan Corner was launched July 12 at Seoul Metropolitan Library to help promote the country’s diverse culture and vibrant publishing industry to South Korea, according to the National Central Library.
 
During the facility’s launch ceremony, NCL Director-general Tseng Shu-hsien said people-to-people exchanges between Taiwan and South Korea have gone from strength to strength with the two sides enjoying close proximity.
 
This positive development is evidenced by the fact that the number of visitors from the Northeast Asian country to Taiwan has topped all others since the government reopened its border in October 2022 after the COVID-19 pandemic subsided, she added.
 
According to the NCL, the new facility features illustration and pop-up books for children, maps of Taiwan and other publications on culture, customs, history and literary works donated by the library and local publishers.
 
The Taiwan Corner initiative is a key project undertaken by the NCL to expand its global presence and promote the country via soft power since the first such space was launched in Athens in August 2019. Since then, other such facilities have been established in cities such as Boston, Prague, San Jose, Tallinn, Vilnius, Warsaw and Zurich.
 
Another major global NCL promotion project is the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies, which was launched in 2012 as a global platform for Sinology resources and promotion of academic exchanges. To date, there are 45 such centers in nearly 30 countries.


Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)