The Star
Date: 2 Dec 2018
FROM Kuomintang outsider to the man who broke the Democratic Progressive
The Han tide: The outsider politician won the Kaohsiung seat after voters fell in love with his daughter Coco on social media. — Facebook
Party’s grip of more than two decades on Kaohsiung, new mayor Han Kuo-yu is enjoying the spotlight and he owes much to his social media-savvy daughter, Coco Han, for that success.
Coco, a 23-year-old senior university student who majored in sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, campaigned for her father on the streets and behind the scenes, prompting some to draw parallels with Ivanka Trump’s role in helping her father, Donald, to the US presidency.
Coco managed social media accounts for her father’s election campaign and, when Han’s victory was declared at the weekend, she said she would “lend my father to Kaohsiung”.
“I finally got to sleep for eight hours,” she said after the polls.
“I will go back to continue my studies and hope Han will work hard, and not disappoint people’s expectations of him.” [FULL STORY]
