Is "begpacking" legal? (not general discussion)

So far I haven’t been able to find recent comprehensive statistics, and I haven’t found anything comprehensive about what kinds of work these visa holders do.

This seems to be a list of partner countries, with ROC government quotas as to each country, but that doesn’t seem to pertain to the question of how many actually come here from those countries:

Here are some jobs the government suggests might be available:

Here’s a little more along those lines:

Here are a couple of news articles from a few years back:

Couple of orts:

There’s been some discussion of it on the board: