Rural Mimi's Voice Radio Program: I Love Shengou

Singing songs and selling medicine while keeping elderly farmers company, yet no dedicated rural program

“Listening to the radio is like having someone to chat with.” Kunbin Bo (Huang Kunbin), who has grown rice for half a century, also falls for this. He said that when he goes to the fields he also carries a radio, tunes the channel, and then starts working. He cannot remember exactly what was said, only that there were jokes, social current affairs, and national news, until several times the radio fell into the field and broke, after which he no longer carried it.

Although Kunbin Bo rarely listens now, there are still many elderly people and farmers who are illiterate and speak Taiwanese as their mother tongue, and they still maintain the habit of listening. When they hear "so touching" medicine sales, they are urged to "push on". The current broadcasting world is one country, two systems: in rural areas the radio only sells health foods, medicines, and universal balm, while in urban areas the radio only has pop music and traffic news, and you cannot hear a bit of information about rural areas.

“Right, so I really want to do rural broadcasting.” Lin Chiungmei, who has worked in the broadcasting circle for over ten years and is nicknamed "Da Mi", said with a firm tone and the precise enunciation of a broadcaster.

In fact, she herself comes from Wuri, Taichung, and witnessed her hometown change from farmland to factories, then to the high-speed rail station and urban jungle. Although she has worked hard in Taipei for many years, several times when she drove south and got off the interchange, she could not even find the way home, making her lament that rural areas are receding too quickly, and therefore she urgently wants to use her broadcasting expertise to make a radio station for her hometown and rural areas.