KBS is a government-owned radio station operated by the Kaohsiung City Government’s Information Bureau. It offers a wide variety of programming for the general public and it plays an important part in local communities by providing lively city government and lifestyle information. Praised as “The general public’s clever housekeeper and the speedy courier of life”, it has not only won the support of southern Taiwan’s residents but has been very successful at the Golden Bell broadcasting awards in recent years. It has now won the most awards of any single radio station for several straight years and was also voted the best radio station in southern Taiwan.