Ko San
Ko San | |
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| Born | October 19, 1976 |
| Nationality (legal) | South Korean |
| Occupation | Researcher |
| Space career | |
| KAP Astronaut | |
| Selection | 2006 South Korean program |
| Missions | None |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 고산 |
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| 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. A graduate of Hanyoung Foreign Language High School, Ko went on to study Mathematics and Cognitive Science 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.
After Graduating from Seoul National University, he started working at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as a researcher. His research topic was Computer Vision.
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.[1] [2] 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.[3][4][5]
After returning from Russia he started working at the Korean Aerospace Research Institute.
He started studying public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2010. Now he is taking a leave of absence from the John F. Kennedy School of Government to run an NPO, TIDE Institute.
TIDE is an NGO based in Seoul, Korea which promotes global technology entrepreneurship. It has held multiple entrepreneurship events with participants from around the world and runs entrepreneurial academic program every year. In April 2013 it opened Fab Lab Seoul where tools for digital fabrication such as 3D printer, CNC, Laser cutter. TIDE stands for Technology, Imagination, Design and Entrepreneurship.
See also
External links
- Korean Will Go Into Space in 2008
- Two astronaut finalists pass medical checks
- Spacefacts biography of Ko San
References
- ^ ITH, South Korea to announce its first astronaut
- ^ Houston Chronicle, "South Korea taps robotics expert as 1st astronaut"
- ^ "South Korea Switches to Backup for First Astronaut Flight". space.com. 2008-03-10. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ^ "South Korea Will Send Woman Into Space". globalsecurity.org. 2008-03-10. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ^ "S. Korea names woman as first astronaut". CNN. 2008-03-10. Archived from the original on 2008-03-15. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
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