When Typhoon Morakot struck Taiwan in August of this year, news broadcasters repeatedly aired footage of the Jinshuai Hotel's collapse into the flooded Zhiben River. While the footage quickly became symbolic of the horror of the Typhoon Morakot disaster, the damage to Taitung's Zhiben hot springs district was hardly unique.
今年 8 月，台東知本溫泉區內的金帥飯店轟然一聲倒在暴漲的知本溪裡的畫面，透過電視新聞反覆播放，早已成為國人關於莫拉克風災的驚悚烙印。