Cho Tae-yong (Korean: 조태용; Hanja: 趙太庸; born 29 August 1956) is a South Korean career diplomat and politician with over three decades of experience who served as South Korea's National Security Advisor from March[1][2] to December 2023.

Cho has extensive experience in a range of high-level diplomatic assignments dealing with the United States and North Korea.

[4] As South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister between 2014 and 2015, he represented South Korea in regular U.S.-South Korea-Japan trilateral talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama.

[5] He is not to be confused with Cho Tae-yul, a similarly named South Korean career diplomat who was South Korea's Second Vice Foreign Minister of Affairs until 2016 and currently serves as the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations.

[7] Among various other positions, Cho was previously South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2015 and South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs from 2013 to 2014.