Tainan City Labor Bureau Holds Youth Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Workshop
Tainan City Labor Bureau Holds "Youth Entrepreneurship X Social Enterprise Workshop" ⟦4 To provide aspiring young people in Tainan and civil society groups working in social enterprise with a platform for creative inspiration and lively exchange on youth entrepreneurship and social enterprise, the Tainan City Labor Bureau, together with the Zhongshan Education Management Foundation and Chang Jung Christian University, jointly organized the "Youth Startup X Social Enterprise Meetup!" workshop. The first session was held at the BIG O2 youth entrepreneurship base in Xinying, Tainan, and was enthusiastically received. A second session was then held at the Yonghua Civic Center, with special guest Lu Hung, founder of the well-known cultural and creative social enterprise "La Yoo," invited to share his successful experience in running a social enterprise, and to exchange and discuss entrepreneurial motivations, the difficulties that may be encountered in starting a business, and business models with three young entrepreneurs in cultural and creative fields. ⟦5 Nearly 90 young people from cultural and creative fields gathered on the day of the second session to listen, including individuals from personal studios, the life insurance industry, the biotechnology industry, the information and electronics industry, students, teachers, military personnel, radio hosts, and young people preparing to return home to start businesses. ⟦6 Wang Hsin-chi, Director-General of the Tainan City Labor Bureau, said that the Labor Bureau specifically combined the two major themes of youth entrepreneurship and social enterprise, under the main theme "Embrace the entrepreneurial life, Tainan is not just Tainan," and invited social entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial investors to share their successful entrepreneurial journeys from their own entrepreneurial perspectives and experiences through dialogue, discussion and sharing with young friends. ⟦7 The second session focused on "cultural creativity," with Lu Hung, founder of the well-known cultural and creative social enterprise "La Yoo," proposing the concept of "social design." His social enterprise philosophy is that design is not a tool for gaining fame and profit, but should be a way to make society better. ⟦8 The event continued with three young entrepreneurs from Tainan's seventh-grade generation each giving presentations on their entrepreneurial proposals, explaining their business models and the various problems and difficulties encountered in starting their businesses to the attending guests, social entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and mentoring scholars and experts, and receiving feedback and suggestions for business improvement. ⟦9 Through this platform for exchange on entrepreneurial topics, the event brought together a cross-disciplinary crowd from multiple professional fields, allowing participants to glimpse entrepreneurial business models at different levels of practical life application, so that more young friends willing to enter the field of social enterprise entrepreneurship could absorb more practical cultural and creative experience suited to local development.
To provide aspiring young people in Tainan and civil society groups working on social enterprises with a platform for creative inspiration, exchange and lively discussion as a channel for youth entrepreneurship and social enterprise communication, the Tainan City Labor Affairs Bureau, together with the Zhongshan Education Management Foundation and Chang Jung Christian University, jointly organized the "Youth Startup X Social Enterprise Meetup!" workshop series. The first session was held at the BIG O2 youth entrepreneurship base in Xinying, Tainan, and received enthusiastic praise. A second session was then held at the Yonghua Civic Center, with special invitations to the renowned cultural and creative social entrepreneur Lu Hung, founder of "La Yoo," to share his successful experience in running a social enterprise, and to exchange and discuss with three young entrepreneurs in cultural and creative fields their original entrepreneurial intentions, the difficulties they may encounter, and their business models.
On the day of the second event, nearly 90 young people from cultural and creative fields gathered to listen, including: individual studio operators, life insurance professionals, biotechnology professionals, information and electronics professionals, students, teachers, military personnel, radio hosts, and young people preparing to return home to start businesses.
Wang Hsin-chi, Director-General of the Tainan City Labor Affairs Bureau, said that the Labor Affairs Bureau specifically combined the two major topics of youth entrepreneurship and social enterprises, using the main theme "Embrace the entrepreneurial life, Tainan is not just Tainan," and invited social entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial investors to share their entrepreneurial perspectives and experiences, and through dialogue, discussion and sharing with young friends, to describe the process of entrepreneurial success.
The second event focused on "cultural creativity." Lu Hung, founder of the renowned cultural and creative social entrepreneur "La Yoo," introduced the concept of "social design," and his social enterprise philosophy is that design is not a tool for gaining fame and profit, but should be a way to make society better.
The event continued with three young entrepreneurs from Tainan's seventh-grade generation, each giving a presentation on their entrepreneurial proposals, explaining their business models and the various problems and difficulties encountered in starting their businesses to the attending guests, social entrepreneurs, venture investors, and mentoring scholars and experts, and receiving feedback and suggestions for improving their operations.
⟧ Through this platform for exchanging entrepreneurial topics, the event brought together cross-disciplinary people from multiple professional fields, allowing participants to glimpse entrepreneurial business models applied at different levels of daily life, so that more young friends willing to enter the field of social enterprise could absorb more practical cultural and creative experience suited to local development.

▲Tainan City Labor Bureau Holds "Youth Entrepreneurship X Social Enterprise Workshop"