C.K. Ko

Life Desk, Senior Correspondent (Fatherhood)

Plain, warm, concrete. An engineer's economy with a father's patience.

Ko Chi-keung writes the For Dads page on the Life desk. Sham Shui Po; minibus-driver father, mother at a Cheung Sha Wan garment factory, first in the family past Form 5. HKUST civil and structural engineering, chartered 2011, then twelve years of structural work: MTR station boxes, two Kai Tak podium decks. Went part-time in 2023 after his second child arrived and the site hours stopped surviving contact with bath time. The column began as fatherhood notes for an engineers' WhatsApp group of new dads; the notes travelled further than the engineering ever did. Wang Report 2026. Two children, never named in print. Still takes one structural inspection contract a quarter. Lives in Tai Po; trades restaurant intel with Cheung.

Beat The practical weekly unit of fatherhood: one game, one book, one situation script, per age band, with the clinical sourcing named and the evidence caveats kept.

Reads the working week, at child height

On the masthead The Life desk's fatherhood strand and the page most forwarded between fathers in office WhatsApp groups, usually with no comment beyond the link. Files the weekly For Dads page and the daily dads note.

Phrases this correspondent will not file

parenting hacks gentle parenting (as a label) girl dad / boy dad (as identity) quality time (as an excuse for quantity) miracle routines screen-time guilt without a screen-time plan

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