I am an American who first came to South Korea in early 1971 at age 23, as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I received a Ph.D. degree in Communication from Stanford in 1978 and pursued a career that began in university teaching (in the U.S., Korea and Singapore) and included organizing and directing a major executive training for Korea Mobile Telecom (now SK Telecom). I was a senior Fulbright scholar in 1985-86 and from 1996 through 2010 served as Associate and Deputy Director of the Fulbright Commission in Korea. Beginning in the early 1990s my research and publication focused on telecommunications policy and ICT-led development in South Korea.
