More than 1000 km^2 area located in both Tainan and Kaoshiung counties in Taiwan is covered by a young and weakly cemented mudstone formation. The characteristics of the mudstone are sensitive in slaking, and weathering, with high erosion rate, and the strength decreased when the water content increased. Owing to these special characteristics, the disaster, such as erosion, plane sliding, rock falling, mud flow and subsidence, and also resulted in reducing the life of the reservoir etc. occurs frequently in the mudstone slope. The conventional slope protection methods used in mudstone area investigated. A project with full scale tests used to overcome the engineering problems of mudstone occurred in Kaoshiung county of Taiwan has been supported by the Taiwan Area National Expressway Engineering Bureau. This paper comments about mentioned methods in detail for engineering design reference for mudstone area in the southwest of Taiwan.