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日本赤十字社台灣支部 (Japan Red-cross, Taiwan branch)
This building was Red-cross’ office building, different from their hospital (which became 中興醫院 post war and now part of NTU hospital buildings, located on Changte Jie 常德街).
After the war, KMT took over this building, and made it the KMT headquarter. In theory, this building should belong to the red cross, if not the central or city government. However, KMT said finders keepers, and it became KMT’s property, legally illegal, of course.
The building functioning as KMT headquarters
People are talking about examples of KMT’s illegal party assets and its illegal selling of such assets. I think one great example is this one.
When CSB got elected to Taipei city mayor, CSB said he will make sure all historical buildings be declared as such. This would mean KMT would no longer be able to to sell this piece of prime real estate under the historic landmark act. In order to beat CSB to it, KMT first announced it would not tear down this historic building. Then against public outcry, KMT tore it down in secret one night back in 1994. KMT then built a “new” KMT headquarters over its original site.
The “old” new KMT headquarters.
During construction of the “new” headquarters, KMT moved into another ill gotten property, 廣電大樓 at Renai rd., which was previously THK (臺灣放送協會). The building was then sold for 8,800,000,000 NTD to build the now famous Dibao 帝寶, which was under the market value of 12,000,000,000 NTD.
In 2006, KMT sold the former red-cross building to the Evergreen Corp for 2,300,000,000 NTD. Now’s it’s Evergreen Maritime Museum.
