I actually heard about this guy a few years back through a documentary showing how dedicated and curious he was into learning taiwanese and his passion for running . There’s an e-book about him called 一粒米，百粒汗 which he and his wife wrote in Chinese and can be bought in Kobo. I’ll leave the book below for those interested:
https://www.kobo.com/tw/en/search?query=一粒米+百粒汗
Absolutely needed to get citizenship.
Thus the odds of a high school senior on the basketball team making it to the NBA (3 in 10,000) are much much higher than getting citizenship in Taiwan
“There have been millions and millions of Chinese Americans but zero American Chinese” says Harvard’s Eric Liu
Japan Korea the same
Taiwan basically the same
I am stealing this line for the next time a coworker stares and complains about why I don’t have Taiwan citizenship yet… 
We’re gonna get this passed @Icon!
In the meantime, I bite my tongue until it bleeds… 
We’re gonna do it!
We just need to focus on running.
also writing books about ourselves to boost the brand!
Videos, that’s where it’s at.
That’s actually more than I expected.
141 foreign professionals naturalized but how many did apply to be naturalized?
Actually 198 as of now including 14 plum blossom card holders. These would all have to apply.
Do these people need to do any military service once the passport is in their hands?
If younger than 36, yes.
To get the ball rolling for a senior foreign professional Plum Blossom Card holder to obtain naturalized citizenship: who to talk to? The NIA? Someone else?
Guy
For Plum Blossom Card holders, since you skip the recommendation letter step, the Household Registration Office.