If I recall correctly (this was many years ago, and I’m not entirely sure I’m narrating the accurate picture):
My uncle was a cadet in Taiwan in the 1970s, preparing to become an officer in the Taiwanese navy. One day, the commander (a commandant?) was addressing the classroom of cadets when someone walked up behind him in full view of all the seated cadets and stabbed him (the commander) in the back with a knife. My uncle, and all the other cadets, were frozen, unable to move. (I don’t know what happened to the assailant afterwards.)
My father brought up this anecdote about his brother many years later (when we were discussing the Taipei 2014 subway attack ) to explain why people sometimes freeze up, or don’t intervene, in the midst of a mass shooting or stabbing incident - because they’re transfixed by shock.
(Obviously, this is not a “typical everyday life in the Taiwanese military” thing)