HOW I MET CHIANG KEI-SHEK AND LAUNCHED KOREA’S ADVERTISING INDUSTRY
by John Stickler
John Stickler’s 5,400-word memoir, HOW I MET CHIANG KEI-SHEK AND LAUNCHED KOREA’S ADVERTISING INDUSTRY will be published by the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch in its annual scholarly anthology, TRANSACTIONS. The unpaid honor recognizes John’s entrepreneurial role, from 1964 to 1976, in South Korea’s dynamic post-war history. He founded his own ad agency in Seoul in 1996 and introduced international advertising to Korea’s tourism and consumer products sectors.
Taken from THE WRITE WORK, the newsletter of The Society of Southwestern Authors Vol. 42, No. 4 August/Sept. 2013