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The rise of the platform economy is significant in Taiwan. We can observe that the increasing of workers participating in the platform economy, as well the gig economy. The increased incidences are significant. For example, one of the platforms, 'Pro360', claimed that it has reached 100,000 cases or projects per week. However, we still have little information about the development of gig economy in Taiwan. Who are these workers? What are the distributions of their demographics? What are their working conditions? And what is the labor relationship between the platform itself and the workers? What types of social protection are applied to these workers? More investigations are needed to answer the prior questions. Through a survey research method, our study portraits the profile of gig economy in Taiwan. From the analysis of the survey and interview findings, we find that current platform economy participants are relatively optimistic about this type of work. Most of them are regarded themselves as self-employed workers in the platform economy. These workers regard the gig economy with more advantages than the disadvantages. They also demonstrate high intention to continue working as a gig worker. However, they received very little social protection form platforms or even from the social protection system. Based on these findings, some specific policy suggestions are proposed.