At a news conference, Kaohsiung City councilors Kang Yu-cheng (康裕成), Huang Wen-yi (黃文益) and Lin Chih-hung (林智鴻) said that Han has been promoting a cult of personality at the local government. Han is contenting himself with printing the Ferris wheel on paper because he has not managed to build it by the Love River (愛河) as promised, Kang said. “A Ferris wheel goes up and down; ever upward is not how it works,” Kang added. “Like the Tourism Bureau’s festival for bald people, the emblem design absolutely was the product of people sucking up to Han,” Huang said. “It shows just how much the culture of sucking up to the mayor has spread.”Han’s talk of “personnel adjustments” has led city officials who fear losing their jobs or are ambitious about their advancement to compete to flatter the mayor, Lin said.

Source: Taipei Times May 31, 2019 15:56 UTC