Ep 185 | Brian Foden Newscaster for ICRT Talks About How Life has Changed in Taiwan

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:

In this episode of Talking Taiwan, I'm speaking with Brian Foden. We're welcoming Brian back on as a guest after discovering his lost episode that was recorded 10 years ago. Originally from Canada, he's been living in Taiwan for over 20 years now. We spoke about what Taiwan was like when he first arrived, how it's changed and what life is like for him these days. Brian is a writer/editor and part-time newscaster at ICRT.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• When Brian arrived in Taiwan
• How life is like in Taiwan now that the government has switched away from a zero-COVID strategy
• What life was like in the early period of the pandemic when Taiwan had no local COVID cases
• How Brian manages working remotely and in-person at the office
• Brian started working at ICRT in May of 2000 and worked there full-time until 2004
• Brian's position as morning show news producer at ICRT
• How Brian left ICRT in 2004 and returned in 2012
• Brian's work as a news reader at ICRT
• Brian's background in journalism
• Comparing winters in Regina, Saskatchewan and in Ottawa, Ontario
• How Brian ended up in Taiwan
• How Taiwan has changed in the time that Brian has lived there
• Chen Shui-bian was elected President around the time that Brian moved to Taiwan; it was the first time that a Democratic Progressive Party candidate had been elected President in Taiwan
• The development of Taiwan's MRT system
• The popularity of English learning magazines in Taiwan
• How ICRT has changed over the years
• The podcast series Rick Monday made about ICRT (Radioactive Taiwan)
• The glory days of ICRT and the impact it made on Taiwan's culture and society in the 1980s
• How Brian first got his job at ICRT in 2000
• Brian's advice for anyone considering living and working in Taiwan
• The type of writing Brian does for work
• What Brian found difficult about journalism

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