List of Cold War Pilot Defections

South Korea

In September 1949, a South Korean pilot, 1st Lieutenant Pak Yong-Ju, defected with his Stinson L-5 to North Korea.
On December, 3 1952, a South Korean Army Aviator student 2-nd Lt. Kug Yong Am deserted to the communists and had landed his L-19 51-4794 on the airfield at Pyongyang.
In October 1953, a South Korean pilot-instructor Capt. Kim Sung Bai defected with an F-51 Mustang fighter plane to Communist North Korea.
On January, 20 1954, a South Korean pilot 2-nd Lieutenant Choi Mai Chong flew an L-19 light observation plane to the Communists.

“While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

List of Cold War Pilot Defections - South Korea