In October 2006, before the company decided on its approach, Wang, in his role as executive director of the Magazine Business Association of Taipei, led a group of publishers to Korea to study Paju Book City and Heyri Art Valley, never suspecting that the trip would point the way to Yuan-Liou's future.
就在路線之爭尚未取得共識前，2006 年 10 月王榮文以台北市雜誌公會理事長的身分，帶領一群出版人到韓國首爾考察「坡州出版城」和「坡州藝術村」，想不到這趟韓國行，竟為遠流的未來埋下深遠的伏筆。