[2] After graduating from Taipei Municipal Chenggong High School, Liao Ching-Sung failed his college entrance exams.
Instead of devoting another year to entering college, he applied for the technical training program of Central Pictures Corporation (中影技術訓練班).
[4] Later that year, he met Hou Hsiao-Hsien while working at the Department of short film production at Central Pictures.
[2] The turning point of his career as a film editor did not occur until 1983, when he began editing The Boys from Fengkuei (風櫃來的人) directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
[3] Liao Ching-Sung's editing expertise has been sought after not only by Taiwanese directors like Yee Chih-Yen (易智言), Chen Hsin-yi (陳芯宜), and Yang Ya-Che (楊雅喆), but also by Mainland Chinese directors such as Wang Xiao-Shuai (王小帥) and Liu Jie (劉杰).