Taipei Financial Center Corp, owner of Taipei 101, the nation’s tallest building, on Thursday inked a deal on cooperation with Lotte World Seoul Sky, the tallest building in South Korea.
Under the agreement signed by Taipei Financial Center Corp chairman Chou Te-yu (周德宇) and his South Korean counterpart, Lotte World Adventure president Park Dong-ki, the buildings are to host a series of joint tourism activities starting next month.
Chou said the number of South Koreans visiting Taiwan has grown, reaching 880,000 last year, an increase of 35 percent year-on-year.
Photo: Tu Ying-ju, Taipei Times
At the same time, Taiwanese have also become more interested in South Korea, with 830,000 visits last year, he said.
Chou said that with the number of South Koreans visiting the observatory at Taipei 101 growing rapidly, the nation has become its second-largest source of foreign visitors.
Taipei 101 and Seoul Sky are to work together to promote Taiwan-South Korea Tourism Year.
The promotions are to include a 10 percent discount on tickets for South Koreans visiting the Taipei 101 observatory on South Korean Liberation Day, Aug. 15, with the same offer available for Taiwanese visiting Seoul Sky on Oct. 10, Republic of China National Day.
Seoul Sky officially opens on April 3.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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