Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles

I went to the promo event of KANO and encountered volunteers from Taiwan Center. Cut the story short, I sure did not leave with a good impression of this organization. The movie itself was excellent. However, one of the volunteers was one of the rudest person EVER. The guy had no clue how to work at public relations. Throughout the whole time, he looked extremely mad. While the movie did not start on time (was delayed for about 20 minutes), he kept on asking people to stop saving seats for guests. While I can understand if there are no more seats left in the theater that may be a reasonable request. Yet, the theater had a whole section still empty and this volunteer was already screaming and yelling and saying stuff like he will force people to give up their seats. When was the last time have you hear that type of thing happened while attending a movie? Then he blamed it on the fact that it was because people were saving these seats that why they couldn’t start the movie. When he mentioned that, he really ticked a lot of the audiences off. Now several people started to yell back at this volunteer.
Obviously, this organization does not train or select people well to work at events. If the event is already not on schedule and something is going wrong, you do NOT sent some kid over to run the event as if you are in a military state. You do NOT sent a kid to snap at people. You do NOT blame the delay of the movie on people who are late for the event while yelling at people who are on time and paid $ 15 of their hard earned money to support the movie. If a movie is scheduled to start at 11am, you start at 11am. For those who are running late, they should just have to miss out on the beginning of the movie, period! I would highly recommend the movie KANO to anyone. However, I do not ever want to be associated or attend anything by Taiwan Center again!

This is one of the cornerstones of the Taiwanese American community! If you’re a fluent Mandarin & Taiwanese speaker, you’ll have no problem talking to the people who work here. However, if your Mandarin & Taiwanese aren’t that great like mine, then you can take their very inexpensive language courses!
Also, they have their own Miss Taiwanese American (MTA) Pageant!

came to the Taiwan Center today for the Taiwan Tea Gala. they had it in a nice big room with good air conditioning. the staff and volunteers were very friendly and everybody was very polite. the tea program was all about Taiwanese oolong teas, and was very interesting and informative. they even let us sample some teas.
it’s nice little community center. they have a small parking lot, but you can park on the street if it’s full (park on Walnut Creek before Garvey).