Cyber-Warrior Hiring: Kang Yu-cheng Defends Against KMT’s Allegation, Making Counter-Charges Against Kaohsiung City Hall

  Cyber-Warrior Hiring: Kang Yu-cheng Defends Against KMT’s Allegation, Making Counter-Charges Against Kaohsiung City Hall

Source: UDN

December 7, 2019

Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) and Yu Shu-hui (游淑慧), both Taipei City councilmembers, of KMT affiliation, pointed out not long ago that during the nine-in-one local election campaigns last year, Kang Yu-cheng (康裕成), a Kaohsiung City councilmember, of DPP affiliation, and a member of the Frank Hsieh faction, had paid the Yi Shih Company Ltd. (易始股份有限公司), founded by Slow Yang (楊蕙如), NT$200,000 a month for five consecutive months, questioning whether Yang had hired cyber warriors with the money.

In a press conference on December 6, Kang clarified that she had disbursed the NT$1 million from her campaign funds to commission a PR firm for campaign publicity drives, not to hire cyber warriors, adding that the revenues and expenditures in her campaign funds had been declared to the Control Yuan.

In addition, Kang made counter-charges against Anne Wang (王淺秋), who resigned as director-general of the Kaohsiung Information Bureau on December 5 to assume spokeswoman at Han Kuo-yu’s campaign headquarters, by pointing out that early this year, Kaohsiung City Hall had issued a public tender amounting to NT$980,000 for gathering data concerning volume on the Internet. Kang went on to ask whether Wang had squandered public funds to hire cyber warriors.

Wang responded by saying that the tender simply aimed to gather online news concerning the governance of Kaohsiung City Hall for reference of Kaohsiung City Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) as well as departments and bureaus in City Hall in order to improve their governance.

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