Taiwan must improve its data curation and transparency if the Ministry of Culture is to succeed in its ambition to emulate the success of the Korean Wave.
The News Lens
Date: 2018/03/29
By: David Green
Whatever happened to the good old days?
It’s a question Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) likely asked her underlings at the
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Ministry of Culture (MoC) shortly after coming to power.
Back then, in January 2016, Tsai gave an interview to Yonhap News in which she praised the “South Korean government’s cultural policy and insight” in propelling the Korean Wave global.
The comments tacitly acknowledged that the so-called Hallyu (Korean Wave) had eclipsed its Taiwanese counterpart while indicating that the new administration was poised to take a leaf out of Seoul’s book in its attempts to push Taiwan’s creative content producers to renewed success on the global stage.
A recent flurry of news related to what Taiwan calls the “cultural and creative industries” (CCI) — TV, movies, computer games, books and related content like animation and comics – suggest the plan is coming together. [FULL STORY]
