«No matter how this process spins itself out,» George Griffin, commercial
counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, told Matthew N. Winokur, public affairs manager of Philip Morris Asia, in a «Dear Matt» letter in January 1986, «I want to emphasize that the embassy and the various U.S.
government agencies in Washington will keep the interests of Philip Morris and the other American cigarette manufacturers in the forefront of our daily concerns.»