‘SELF-DEIFICATION’?‘ If we don’t use it, will it affect our evaluations, or our chances for a promotion?’ a teacher said about the city’s request to use the mayor’s likeness
Taipei Times
Date: May 05, 2019
By: Huang Liang-chieh and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Kaohsiung’s public institutions are not required to use an emblem bearing the likeness of
A cartoon image of Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu holding a cabbage and accompanied by a dog is pictured in an undated photograph.Photo: Ko Yu-hao, Taipei Times
Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) on printed materials, the Kaohsiung City Government said yesterday.
The city government was responding after public schools on Friday received a notice from the city government saying that the emblem should be used whenever referencing the mayor in event materials, but officials later in the day backtracked, saying that they simply hoped that institutions referencing the mayor would use the emblem for uniformity.
Civil servants said they were “startled” by the notice, and criticized Han for what they called “self-deification.”
Some city agencies asked whether performance evaluations would suffer if they failed to use the emblem.
While the city was “not enforcing its use,” institutions using the emblem could do so without charge, the city’s Bureau of Information said. [FULL STORY]