- Won Yong Ko
Won Yong Ko (born
October 15 ,1945 ) has been ageneral authority ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2005. A native ofSouth Korea , in 2008 Ko was the only LDS Church general authority from mainlandAsia .Ko was born in
Busan ,Korea in 1945. He joined the LDS Church in March 1962. Ko holds abachelor's degree inelectrical engineering fromSeoul National University . Ko was employed as the president andCEO ofHanjin Information Systems . He also worked for a time as managing director ofIBM in Korea.In the LDS Church, Ko has served as a
stake president , area public affairs representative, and as anarea seventy beginning in 1995. Ko also served as a counselor in the church's Asia North Area presidency while he was an area seventy. He and his wife Eun-Hee Kim have two children.In April 2005, Ko became a member of the church's
Second Quorum of the Seventy . In 2008, Ko was serving as first counselor in the presidency of thePhilippines Area of the church.References
* [http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f318118dd536c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=78348fbe352fe010VgnVCM100000176f620a____&hideNav=1 “Elder Won Yong Ko Of the Seventy,”] "Liahona", May 2005, p. 125
*"2008 Deseret Morning News Church Almanac" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News, 2007) p. 56
*"Church News ",June 18 ,2005 ;June 7 ,2008 ;August 5 ,1995 External links
* [http://gapages.com/kowy1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Won Yong Ko]
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