Bags of it can be found atop laptops, ATM machines, printers all over the island, even in the offices of engineers in Hsinchu Science Park – home of the island’s semiconductor industry.
In this episode, ST’s foreign editor Li Xueying chats with ST’s Taiwan correspondent Yip Wai Yee about how these chips became the go-to lucky charms for Taiwan appliances, and the folk traditions and pseudoscience that continue to thrive in the technologically advanced society.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:00: Why Kuai Kuai corn chips are so popular in Taiwan
2:05: How they “bestow their magical powers” on appliances
4:28: TSMC, the world’s leading semiconductor company, has its own edition of Kuai Kuai chips
5:47: The propensity for Taiwanese to turn to such folk beliefs
8:29 The wrong use of Kuai Kuai chips was believed to have crashed Taiwan’s tax filing system in May 2017
Read Wai Yee’s article here: https://str.sg/6vYn
Produced by: Li Xueying ([email protected]), Ernest Luis and Fa’izah Sani
Edited by: Fa’izah Sani
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