He had served as Minister of the Council of Indigenous Peoples from 2009 to 2013 and Vice President of the Control Yuan from 2014 to 2020.

Sun is a member of the Puyuma tribe in Taiwan,[1][2] and is also a Roman Catholic.

[3] Paelabang Danapan received his bachelor's degree in Chinese literature from National Taiwan University, and bachelor's degree in philosophy from Fu Jen Catholic University.

He then earned his Ph.D. in sinology from the Catholic University of Louvain (KU Leuven) in Belgium.

[4] Before entering the political world, Paelabang Danapan was a professor at the National Chengchi University in Taipei and Professor of Indigenous Language and Communication at National Dong Hwa University.