The 37-year-old Liu had always been in the service industry since graduating from National Chung Hsing University with a degree in Chinese. He sold toys, and later worked for a computer company selling Internet telephones and network switches.
37 歲的劉永新，中興大學中文系畢業後，一直從事業務工作，他賣過玩具，後來到電腦公司賣起網路電話與交換機設備等。