Thae Yong-ho
- January 11, 2024
- Member Of The National Assembly Of South Korea
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Thae Yong-ho |
| Date Of Birth | Jul 25, 1962(1962-07-25) |
| Age | 62 |
| Birthplace | Pyongyang |
| Country | North Korea |
| Horoscope | Leo |
Thae Yong-ho Biography
| Birthday | Jul 25 |
| Birth Year | 1962 |
Thae Yong-ho is one of the most popular and richest Member Of The National Assembly Of South Korea who was born on July 25, 1962 in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Thae Yong-ho (Korean: 태영호 ; Hanja: 太永浩 ; Korean pronunciation: [tʰɛ.jʌŋ.ɦo] , born 25 July 1962), also known as Thae Ku-min (Korean: 태구민 ; Hanja: 太救民 ), is a South Korean politician, defector from North Korea, and former diplomat who is the member-elect of the National Assembly for the Gangnam district. He was North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom, prior to defecting with his family to South Korea in 2016. Thae has been variously described as the highest-ranking North Korean official to defect, and the highest-ranking North Korean defector since the 1997 defection of juche ideologist Hwang Jang-yop. In August 2016, the South Korean government confirmed that Thae and his family were under their protection.
Thae studied abroad in China at a young age, learning English. He went on to study at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies. Thae began working in the 1980s.
Thae Yong-ho Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Member Of The National Assembly Of South Korea |
| House | Living in own house. |
Thae Yong-ho is one of the richest Member Of The National Assembly Of South Korea from North Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thae Yong-ho 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Thae is married to O Hye-son (Korean: 오혜선 ), a relative of Kim Il-sung’s comrade in arms during the 1930s, O Paek-ryong [ko] . They have two sons. Their older son is a graduate of a British university, and their younger son, who was born in Denmark, when Thae was serving as a diplomat there, was studying at a London school. The younger son had recently been offered a place to study computer science at Imperial College London. However, the family had been recalled to Pyongyang just before Thae’s defection. Thae was able to escape with his wife and children, but his brother and sister were left behind in North Korea. Thae stated after his defection that “I’m sure that my relatives and my brothers and sisters are either sent to remote, closed areas or to prison camps, and that really breaks my heart.”
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In May 2018, Thae published Cryptography From the Third-Floor Secretariat (Korean: 3층 서기실의 암호 ; Hanja: 3層 書記室의 暗號 ), a memoir of his life as a North Korean diplomat. The book became a bestseller in South Korea. 10,000 copies of the first print run were sold in four days. It is a rare example of a book written by a North Korean defector becoming a bestseller in South Korea. The memoir was described by Andrei Lankov as “a remarkably balanced and unbiased text” and it “writes about the North Korean system in a slightly detached way, describing how things are done but never going into a righteous frenzy of moralistic outrage”.
Facts & Trivia
Thomas Ranked on the list of most popular Member Of The National Assembly Of South Korea. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in North Korea. Thae Yong-ho celebrates birthday on July 25 of every year.
In February 2020, Thae ran for a seat representing the Gangnam District of Seoul in the National Assembly in South Korea’s parliamentary elections in April 2020. During his campaign, Thae ran under the pseudonym Thae Ku-min (태구민), Ku-min meaning “saving the people [of North Korea]”. Despite initially facing skepticism regarding his campaign and having no connection to the Gangnam District, Thae easily beat his opponent, becoming the first North Korean defector to win a National Assembly seat through a constituency vote.