MASSIVE EFFORT:With the combined strength of 80,000 city government employees, the Universiade cannot go wrong, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 21, 2016
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday said that he hopes to awaken Taiwanese
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je plays a drum at an event initiating the 365-day countdown to the Universiade that is to take place in Taipei next year. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
passion with the Universiade next year.
Ko made the remarks on the sidelines of a visit to a pavilion at the Taipei Expo Park to be used for the sporting event, where games were being staged to test the venue’s readiness.
He said that if he were to use one sentence to describe the Universiade, it would be “show the world a better Taiwan, and awaken Taiwanese passion in the process.”
Ko said that he does not believe the Universiade will be a failure when asked to comment on remarks by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lo Shu-lei (羅淑蕾), who in an interview with the Chinese-language Apple Daily said that if the Universiade is a flop, it would embarrass the city in the eyes of the international community. [FULL STORY]
