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<\/p>\nRepresentative to Finland Freddy Lim (\u6797\u6636\u4f50) built connections with local politicians and others through a heavy metal concert with Finnish bands in Helsinki on Thursday.<\/p>\n
At \u201cF:F:F-Formosa:Finland:Fest,\u201d on Thursday at concert venue Tiivistamo, Lim, playing with Chthonic (\u9583\u9748) \u2014 including his wife, Doris Yeh (\u8449\u6e58\u6021), leader and bassist of their band \u2014 were joined by fellow Taiwanese bands Crescent Lament (\u6046\u6708\u4e09\u9014) and Flesh Juicer (\u8840\u8089\u679c\u6c41\u6a5f), along with three Finnish acts: Korpiklaani, Lost Society and Olli Vanska. <\/p>\n
Visual, fashion and culinary artists from Taiwan also took part, according to the festival Web site. <\/p>\n
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Photo: CNA \n<\/p>\n
Lim said the event drew unusually strong participation from Finnish politicians, many of whom had shown little interest in Taiwan\u2019s activities before.<\/p>\n
The representative office was surprised when many of those who had declined past invitations confirmed their attendance.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome even asked a week before the event if they could bring more friends,\u201d Lim said.<\/p>\n
Describing the concert as part of Taiwan\u2019s evolving diplomatic strategy, Lim said it built a bridge connecting Taiwan and the world through sensibility rather than sense.<\/p>\n
The event was organized by Taiwan\u2019s General Association of Chinese Culture, with support from the foreign and culture ministries.<\/p>\n
Lim served two terms as a lawmaker from 2016 to last year. He cofounded the New Power Party before joining the Democratic Progressive Party in November 2023. Before entering politics, he was known for being a member of Chthonic.<\/p>\n
Lim said the representative office conducted detailed research on guests\u2019 interests and tailored its invitations accordingly to broaden the event beyond traditional diplomacy.<\/p>\n
Lim has faced questions about his lack of diplomatic experience and acknowledged he was nervous when he assumed the representative post in late July.<\/p>\n
Lim said he has gradually found his rhythm, as local politicians have started inviting him to new heavy metal bars or sharing concert information with him.<\/p>\n
In what he described as the \u201cheavy metal capital of the world,\u201d Lim said he found in music a natural expression of his diverse identities and leveraged it for diplomacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Representative to Finland Freddy Lim (\u6797\u6636\u4f50) built connections with local politicians and others through a heavy metal concert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,5701,5700],"class_list":["post-160338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-the-taipei-times","tag-5700"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}