According to Global Network , the mayor of Kaohsiung , recently, the 2020 Taiwan candidate Han Kuo-yu has returned to the league, and helped the Kuomintang candidates in this "nine-in-one" election. The media on the island generally called the impact of Han Kuo-yu's re-emergence this time "Korean wave".
After losing to Tsai Ing-wen in 2020, Han Kuo-yu was immediately removed from his position as mayor of Kaohsiung, and then he has basically been in a state of seclusion and rarely involves politics publicly. But although Han Kuo-yu has been in seclusion for a long time, the focus of how much influence and appeal he has on the island is still a hot topic of media and public opinion on the island.
Even Han Kuo-yu himself doesn’t know how much energy he has. Before turning on the auxiliary selection mode, he laughed at himself for not knowing whether he was a box office tonic or a laxative. Regarding Han Kuo-yu’s energy, the media people on the island also gave their own different views. Zhu Xueheng, a senior media person on the island and known as the "home god", once said that he made a comeback like an old singer. Although he still has a certain momentum, he is no longer as whirlwind as he was back.
But another senior media person, Cai Shiping, believes that Han Kuo-yu, like an old singer, still has his own fans and fans, but it is probably not easy to release a new record or CD. He believes that Han Kuo-yu still has his charm and can help the candidates in the Blue Camp to stand up. Even if the Korean wave is discounted in half, it is still amazing. After all, Han Kuo-yu received more than 5 million votes when he elected a leader in Taiwan in 2020. No matter how much he gave a discount, he still had loyal fans. But if he wanted to hit a new peak, unless Han Kuo-yu had a new approach or no one else was worth it in the current situation, he would come out to help the platform to assist in the selection, and the effect would still be reduced.
However, Cai Shiping also said that the election cannot be viewed completely from the perspective of addition, just like the Kuomintang Taipei mayor candidate Jiang Wanan. Although Taipei is the base camp of the Blue Army and although it has certain advantages, the best situation is to allow light blue, dark blue, middle voters, and young voters to vote for him. If you just capture the "Blue Army", the middle voters may be unhappy; if you only care about the deep blue, the light blue may be unhappy.
There was a previous example worth noting. On January 2 this year, Han Kuo-yu held a new book launch conference in Taipei City’s Da'an Forest Park. Han Kuo-yu's team originally prepared 600 seats on the spot, but unexpectedly, nearly 10,000 people flocked to allow politicians across Taiwan to see Han Kuo-yu's political energy again. Especially for blue camp politicians, without any mobilization, the word "Han-yu" alone can attract tens of thousands of people to participate. Except for Han Kuo-yu, it is difficult for other blue camp politicians to do it.
A few days ago, Han Kuo-yu went to Kaohsiung to run for the election of the late Kaohsiung Speaker Xu Kunyuan daughter Xu Caizhen. According to reports from media on the island, Han Kuo-yu’s plan to elect all over Taiwan has been officially launched. On October 20, he will also go to Taipei to stand up for Congressman Qin Huizhu, and on the 22nd, he will go to Tainan to assist in the election of Tainan mayor candidate Xie Longjie . These election-assisting activities will show Han Kuo-yu’s current political energy.
It is worth noting that in response to Han Kuo-yu's comeback, the Hong Kong China Review Network called it " catfish effect ". What is the "catfish effect"? Because the price of live sardine is much higher than that of dead fish, in order to get the sardine back to the fishing port alive, the fishermen thought of many solutions, and finally found that a catfish with fish as the main food was placed in the fish tank filled with sardines. After the catfish enters the fish tank, it swims around because the environment is unfamiliar. The sardines were very nervous when they saw the catfish, rushed left and right, dodged around, and swam faster. The problem of sardines with hypoxia is solved, and the sardines will not die. In this way, sardines jumped back to the fishing port.
If we follow this analysis, it can be seen that Han Kuo-yu's emergence has driven the Kuomintang's election vitality.According to Hong Kong China Review Network, Hou Youyi and Lu Xiuyan, who were previously known as the "Korean Party's strongest hen", both regarded "municipality first". Therefore, before Han Kuo-yu officially came out, Hou Youyi and Lu Xiuyan were not very enthusiastic about the election campaigns of candidates from other Kuomintang counties and cities. Even if there were auxiliary election activities across counties and cities, they were soft-spoken and did not have the effect they should have. As a result, Han Kuo-yu’s auxiliary selection scene at Kaohsiung City once again proved that his charm has not diminished. In this way, Hou Youyi and Lu Xiuyan, who were originally considered to be the leader of the blue camp, had a "sense of crisis". If the two people's auxiliary selection and momentum are less popular than Han Kuo-yu, they will inevitably be hurt. This is also an important reason for the sudden increase in the recent election assistance activities between Hou Youyi and Lu Xiuyan.
Judging from the current media comments and form of election assistance, no matter how much energy Han Kuo-yu has, his out-of-the-race assistance has played a positive role in the current Kuomintang election. The only difference is the issue of high profits and low profits.
