YI-LING WU

YI-LING WU Manager of Beverage Research Institute at King Car Food Industrial Company and Vice Chairman of Taiwan Coffee Association  Yi-Ling was born in Taiwan. She is an optimistic, adventurous person who likes to travel and communicate with people.

She majored in food science and engaged in beverage product research and development for KING CAR Group nearly 40 years.  The first time Yi-Ling touched coffee was to produce the first ready-to-drink coffee in Taiwan. She was attracted by coffee because of its various coffee knowledge, flavors and aroma.

She traveled a lot to visit many coffee farms and met farmers as well as coffee lovers around the world. From the above experiences, I realized how big the coffee world is. Then Yi-Ling gathered with many coffee people who have unlimited enthusiasm for coffee to found the Taiwan Coffee Association, which was the first Coffee Association in Taiwan 21 years ago. 

The Association starts to introduce coffee knowledge tasting skills, the terminologies of the coffee industry, hosts coffee competitions, exhibitions. The coffee market grew on an amazing scale after the endeavors of the Association. Since then, Yi-Ling has volunteered in participating in various coffee activities to promote coffee culture in Taiwan. She believe all the coffee events will influence people and the coffee industry. People will be connected together by coffee around the world．