Won Yong Ko
Won Yong Ko was a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy and general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served from April 2005 to October 2011. He previously served as a stake executive secretary, stake high councilor, stake president, clerk of the Pusan Korea Mission, area public affairs representative, regional representative, an Area Seventy, and a member of the Third Quorum of the Seventy.
Ko was born on October 15, 1945, in Busan, Korea. While a child, he attended a Christian church with a housekeeper. He was converted and baptized in 1962 while he was in high school. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Seoul National University and was president and CEO of Hanjin Information Systems. He also worked as an executive of IBM in Korea.
Ko and his wife, Eun-Hee Kim, are the parents of two children.
