Ko San

Ko San
Born	(1976-10-19) October 19, 1976 Busan, South Korea
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 CEO and founder of TIDE Institute.

Biography

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 September 5, 2007, the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology chose Ko San over Yi So-Yeon based on performance in tests during training in Russia. However, on March 10, 2008, this decision was reversed, after the Russian Federal Space Agency asked for a replacement because Ko apparently violated security protocol for maintaining secret information twice at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

He was graduated in 2012 with a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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