In late December, the 1998 Kaohsiung Metropolis Exhibition was held at the Taipei International Convention Center. The Kaohsiung Metropolitan Development Foundation spent NT $ 6 million to put on the show. At the show, they weren't selling famous local delicacies or new gizmos, but something about which people seem simultaneously well acquainted and ignorant: Greater Kaohsiung.
去年十二月底，「1998 大高雄都會展」熱熱鬧鬧地在台北國際會議中心展開，高雄都會發展基金會耗資近六百萬元所要「賣」的展品，不是高雄的鄉土名產，也不是什麼創新發明，而是人盡皆知卻又陌生的﹘﹘大高雄。