Unconventional till the end


HE was the man always dressed in black. Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing rarely embraced convention and he believed in breaking rules and setting new trends. As the founder of LimKokWing University, he leaves a legacy of higher education for us.

Depending on who you speak to, the country’s best known advertising guru was either a genius, slave driver, philanthropist, opportunist, dictator or teddy bear.

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