As we proceed through the front plaza of the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store, scores of ads touting courses in English, civil service exam preparation, graduate programs in Western and traditional Chinese medicine, and securities licensing preparation pull us back into the utilitarian real world.
走在新光三越百貨廣場前，美語、高普考、中西醫研究所、證券執照…… 林林總總的補習看板，又把人拉回功利的現實世界。