On March 18, Sejong Institute held an academic exchange event with the Taipei-based "Foundation on Asia-Pacific Peace Studies". The think tank is affiliated with Taiwan's current ruling Democratic Progressive Party and is chaired by Hsu Hsin-liang, the godfather of Taiwan's democratic movement.
In November 2022, the Sejong Institute signed an MOU for cooperation with the Foundation on Asia-Pacific Peace Studies.
From the Sejong Institute, Yong Joon Lee, Chairman of the Sejong Institute, Sang Hyun Lee, President of the Sejong Institute, Jungsup Kim, Vice President of the Institute, Yoon Jung Choi, Director of Center for Indo-Pacific Studies
, Jaehung Chung, Director of Center for Chinese Studies, Dongmin Lee, Professor at Dankook University and Jin-ho Kim, Professor at Dankook University.
From the Foundation on Asia-Pacific Peace Studies, Hsu Hsin-liang, Chairman of the Foundation, Tung Li-wen,
Chief Executive, Tang Ka-tai, Deputy Executive, Kuo Yu-jen, Director of the Institute of China and Asia Studies at National Sun Yat-sen University, Luo Zheng-Fang, Chairman of GeoSat Aerospace & Technology Corporation and numerous other research fellow from the Foundation joined the Event.
The meeting with the Asia-Pacific Peace Research Fund was followed by private meetings at the National Defense Research Institute and the China Economic Research Institute. In meeting with National Defense Research Institute, Ming-Chi Chen Chief Executive, President Ming-Shih Shen of National Security Institute, Dr. Yi-Suo Tzeng, Chan-Hsi Wang, Tsun-Yen Wang, (Wu Tzu Li, Chih Hao Lin, and Che-Chuan Lee joined meeting and discussed the military situation on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, as well as defense cooperation between the Republic of Korea and Taiwan.
The Chung-Hua Institute for Economic Research (CIER) is an institute similar to combined KDI and KIEP from South Korea, which focuses on Taiwan's economy and trade, cross-strait economic relations, and multilateral economic cooperation. Vice President Shin-Hong Chen, Senior Deputy Director Huai-Shing Yen, Dr. Da-Nien Liu, Dr. Kristy Hsu, Dr. Shu-Fei Yang, Dr. Ming-Min Yang, and many other researchers attended the event.