szeto wah was never married in his life. he only had a romance publicly acknowledged with his fellow teacher wong siu-yung who died in the 1980s. under wong's influence, szeto was baptized as christian on 8 april 1985. he lived with his younger sister in mong kok. his brother, szeto keung, joined the state-owned new china news agency hong kong branch in the 1950s and remained working there.