Yuan-Liou's employees similarly saw at first hand how Korea's notion of "culture-oriented nation building" had encouraged its publishing industry to reject restrictions imposed by the US software industry and instead build its own "ebook-topia." Korea's example fostered an "ethnic self-confidence" among Yuan-Liou's employees and left them resolved to develop their own e-book software.
同時，目睹了韓國出版業在「文化立國」的思維下，不願再受美國軟體業的制約，竟能以自己力量打造「電子書烏托邦平台 booktopia」，遠流同仁也興起一股「民族自信心」的鬥志，決定自己研發電子書軟體系統。