Ko San

Ko San
Nationality (legal)	South Korean
Occupation	Researcher
Space career
KAP Astronaut
Selection	2006 South Korean program
Missions	None

Korean name
Hangul	고산
Hanja	高山
Revised Romanization	Go San
McCune–Reischauer	Ko San

Ko San (born October 19, 1976) is a South Korean researcher at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology.

Ko was born in Busan. His father died when he was a boy, and his mother raised Ko and his sister. A graduate of Hanyoung Foreign Language High School, Ko went on to study mathematics at Seoul National University. He won a bronze medal at a national amateur boxing tournament in 2004 and climbed a 7,546-meter high mountain in China’s Xinjiang Province, Muztagh Ata, the same year.

On December 25 2006, he was chosen as one of two finalists in the Korean Astronaut Program, set to fly as a crew on the Russian Soyuz TMA-12 in April 2008.

On March 10, 2008 it was announced that the prime candidate was changed to Yi So-yeon due to several violations of training protocol by Ko San. Ko San served as backup.

See also

• Timeline of space travel by nationality

External links

• Korean Will Go Into Space in 2008
• Two astronaut finalists pass medical checks
• Spacefacts biography of Ko San