Ko Kuan-min's Luxurious and Scandalous Personal Life: A Play-Boy Amassing Debts of Affairs, Criticized for Decadence

Around June 1992, as his post-exile business and political presence grew in Taiwan, traditional independence elder Ko Kuan-min's luxurious lifestyle and numerous affairs became public knowledge. Born into extreme wealth, Ko lived extravagantly and proudly identified as a "playboy" with a highly messy personal life. He engaged in multiple marriages and cohabitations, having four sons with different mothers (including Japanese partners Shimizu Isuzu and Dai Shu-hua). In his later years, he sustained a lavish, high-class lifestyle using his family's billions. Critics condemned Ko for preaching political righteousness while privately indulging in wine, women, and wealth financed by colonial-era monopolies, exposing deep hypocrisy and moral decadence.