Tan Kun-giok
Tan Kun-giok, also known as Chen Chun-yu in Mandarin, was a Taiwanese songwriter and author born in Daitōtei. He wrote many Taiwanese Hokkien songs such as Thiau Bu Si Tai and Siu Be Toa Kang Tiau, and had served as an officer of Columbia Records, a Japanese-owned disc company. Tan could speak Mandarin Chinese fluently, he was an introducer of Mandarin to postwar Taiwan. Tan died from hepatic cancer in 1963.