Kenneth Bae (born Pae Jun Ho; born August 1, 1968) is a Korean-American Evangelical Christian Missionary convicted by North Korea on charges of planning to overthrow the North Korean government, including setting up bases in China for the purpose of toppling the North Korean government. In April 2013, he was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. He was released on November 8, 2014 along with fellow American Matthew Todd Miller.Bae was born in South Korea in 1968. Bae moved to the United States at age 18 with his family in 1985 or in 1986. Bae (as Jun Ho Bae) graduated from West High School in Torrance, California in 1988 when he was 20 years old. He studied psychology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon for two years. Wikipedia