Despite its being Taiwan's second largest city, "not many people know about Kaohsiung's sea-fill project. If the project were in Taipei, it would have been on the front pages long ago," the city's mayor, Wu Tun-i, laments, maintaining that the media "favor the north."
即使是全台第二大都市，「高雄市的填海工程沒幾個人知道，如果這項工程是在台北，早就上了報紙頭條」，高雄市長吳敦義慨嘆傳播媒體「重北輕南」。