# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thae-yong-ho
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:30:48.464Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thae-yong-ho"
name: "Thae Yong-ho"
slug: "thae-yong-ho"
description: "Thae Yong-ho, also known by his pseudonym Tae Ku-min (태구민), is a North Korean-born South Korean politician and former diplomat who served as a member of the National Assembly for the Gangnam district of Seoul. After studying abroad in Beijing, China, for a decade, he became North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom, prior to defecting with his family to South Korea in 2016. In August 2016, the South Korean government confirmed that Thae and his family were under their protection."
tagline: "North Korean defector and South Korean politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thae_Yong-ho_(Cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-07-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.14
  momentum:             0.3425774877650898
  historical:           15.36337866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.thaeyongho.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thae Yong-ho"
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    title: "Thae Yong-ho"
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    title: "Thae Yong-ho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thae Yong-ho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "太永浩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thae Yong-ho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thae Yong-ho"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump