【JOTO Glassware Recommendation】Urban Street Scenes: The Mosaic Beauty Across Time and Space

In June 2025, Taiwan was chosen as the theme country for the Seoul International Book Fair, with the curatorial theme firmly set as Taiwan Sensibility (대만감성). This was not only an act of cultural exchange but also a celebration of the unique aesthetics of Taiwan—acknowledged and reinterpreted abroad.

So-called “Taiwan Sensibility,” as defined in Korea, refers to something warm, open, a little retro yet rooted in daily life—an emotional undercurrent that blossoms within ordinary street scenes. It made me reflect: those everyday sights we often dismiss as cluttered or mundane—could they already contain a moving power that transcends time and crosses cultures?

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Street signs and faded brick walls weave a dialogue across time. In Taiwan’s old alleys, neon signs form a vibrant patchwork of noise; rows of scooters along the roads embody both movement and daily life. To Korean observers, these elements appear as an elegant mosaic—chaotic yet fragrant with life.

Cultural scholars in Korea have noted that Taiwan’s diversity and sense of transitions carry an aesthetic of “life being exactly as time has composed it.” What feels ordinary to us can appear to outsiders as history, soul, and daily tenderness interwoven.

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Between “ugly” and “beautiful” lies only a shift in perspective. For us, a peeling wall may seem old and shabby; yet in images shared by Koreans, those same walls become the brushstrokes of time, the essence of a unique “Taiwanese aesthetic.”

This reminds us: beauty isn’t just the polished and perfect—it lives in the real, in imperfections, in the traces of time. The core of Taiwan Sensibility isn’t a curated texture, but the lane naturally colored by years, the convenience store tucked on a corner, the tree obscuring half a building façade.

It’s an aesthetic that tells us: the doorway to beauty is never high. As long as we ease our excessive pursuit of perfection, we’ll notice poetry softly blurred into the everyday by time itself.

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Human connections, scenery, and the slow rhythm of life. If Taiwan’s street scenes were a song, its tempo would be steady and unhurried—never stealing the spotlight, never overly complex.

From breakfast under morning arcades to the familiar calls of evening food stalls, these moments were described in Korean media as “sensibility infused with warmth.” The beauty of Taiwan Sensibility isn’t pre-written refinement, but the unguarded smiles and breaths of everyday life that resonate even through images.

This perspective makes me cherish even more the simple afternoons basking in sunlight and the small breezes that drift through the city—perhaps they are the world’s gentlest embrace.

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The allure of authenticity: unedited, yet deeply captivating. We may not often articulate our love for the streets, but we’re frequently struck by fleeting scenes—a cat lounging on a weathered window ledge, a patch of unplanned blue sky, an empty table waiting in silence.

At the Seoul Book Fair, curators explained Taiwan Sensibility as “the fragrance of culture and the warmth of emotion.” And perhaps this fragrance comes precisely from those overlooked corners. It is a reminder that true beauty needs no over-design; it emerges from the streets, from emotion, from resonance born naturally.

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To see Taiwan is to rediscover our own poetry of life. Taiwan Sensibility does not label us with perfection, but invites us to recognize anew the value of the seemingly messy or unremarkable.

We stop merely walking through alleys—we begin to hear them speaking. Taiwan’s beauty doesn’t depend on foreign admiration; it arises within its own daily renewal.

May we learn to slow down, to gaze at every wall, every window, every call in the streets. What we once thought “ugly” may in fact be Taiwan’s deepest charm. And as we gradually learn to appreciate our land, we also learn to appreciate ourselves.

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