The purpose of this study is to seek out relation between advertisements and Taoism through
Taoism’s cultural influences on advertisements.
In Korea, Taoism had never been propagated as on established religion or encouraged along
the line of national religion. Nevertheless, cognition of Taoism is profoundly concerned with
our national deep state as long as every sort of culture including advertisements.
As Paul Tillich once said, culture is just the face of a religion. Of course culture might be the
face of a religion, but culture itself has a design as its face as well.
This study has followed the structure in carrying out the above argument:
First, analysis on the characteristics of Taoism and the type of a cultural values as a code of
conduct through characteristic analysis.
Based on the results found we can see that one of the roots of advertisements as cultural
values. At such a time we have to realize that expression of cultural identity is of the utmost
importance, and we can predict that in the future cultural values will be expressed in
advertisements. So it will be safe to say that people in advertising will be pressed to have more
interest in cultural values on Taoism.