Is it legal for ARC holders to run a monetized Youtube channel in Taiwan?

Unless your ARC is the type that makes you exempt from needing a work permit (what I believe Tempo was getting at), the fact that you have an ARC is neither here nor there.

Questions:

  1. Do you have open work rights? (Apparently you don’t.)

  2. If you don’t have open work rights, does running the channel constitute “work” under Art. 43 of the Employment Service Act?

That, we can’t answer. We don’t know the details. I have heard of a foreigner in Thailand getting in trouble for the same reason (it was in the news), but I think in that case it really was his full-time occupation and livelihood. No similar cases in Taiwan come to mind, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any.

My verdict:

  1. Ask a lawyer.
  2. Also what @Brianjones said.
  3. Also see below.
2 Likes