Ahn Gyu-baek

Ahn Gyu-baek
안규백
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
30 May 2012
Preceded by Chang Kwang-keun
Constituency Seoul Dongdaemun A
In office
30 May 2008 – 29 May 2012
Constituency Proportional representation
Personal details
Born (1961-04-29) 29 April 1961
Gochang, North Jeolla, South Korea
Citizenship South Korean
Political party Minjoo Party of Korea
Alma mater Sungkyunkwan University
Website safe100.or.kr
Ahn Gyu-baek
Hangul 안규백
Hanja 安圭伯
Revised Romanization An Gyubaek
McCune–Reischauer An Kyubaek

Ahn Gyu-baek (Hangul: 안규백; Hanja: 安圭伯; born 29 April 1961) is a South Korean politician in the liberal Minjoo Party of Korea. He has been a member of the National Assembly for Dongdaemun, Seoul, since 2012, and previously served as a party list member from 2008 to 2012.

Ahn was appointed deputy floor leader of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, the Minjoo Party's predecessor, on 12 October 2014,[1] remaining in that position for seven months.[2] He was praised by his Saenuri Party counterpart, Cho Hae-jin, who described him as having an "honest and upright" character and "always thinking of his country first".[lower-alpha 1] He subsequently became head of strategy and public relations for the NPAD on 23 June 2015.[3]

A ranking member of the Assembly's National Defense Committee,[4] Ahn has been a critic of South Korea's defense policy. In 2011 he stated that draft-dodging had doubled under the Lee Myung-bak administration,[5] and at the end of 2015 he attacked Park Geun-hye's government for signing an intelligence cooperation agreement with Japan and the United States, stating that "it is against all reason to give [Korea's] advanced information" to Japan given its colonial history in the peninsula and continuing territorial claims over the Liancourt Rocks.[6] In June 2015, he introduced a bill to honor the veterans of the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong, an armed confrontation with North Korea that had taken place in 2002.[7]

Born in Gochang County in North Jeolla, Ahn attended high school in Gwangju, and studied Eastern philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University as an undergraduate before earning a master's degree at the university's Department of Commerce and Trade.[8][9]

Notes

  1. ↑ "안 의원을 추천한 조해진 새누리당 의원은 그에 대해 '성품이 정직하고 바르며 언제나 나라를 먼저 생각한다'고 이유를 설명했다."[2]

References

  1. ↑ "새정치연합 원내수석부대표에 안규백…원내대변인에 박완주·서영교" [Ahn Gyu-baek to become New Politics Alliance for Democracy deputy floor leader ... Pak Wan-ju and Seo Yeong-gyo as Assembly spokespeople]. ChosunBiz (in Korean). 12 October 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 "안규백, 통합의 정치에 적임인 리더" [Ahn Gyu-baek, a leader fit for the politics of unity]. JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). 5 October 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Opposition divided over key post". The Korea Times. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  4. ↑ ""삼성 때문에…" 공사강행 기업 탓 돌린 국방장관" ["Because of Samsung...": Defense Minister turns to blame company rushing construction]. Jejusori (in Korean). 23 January 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "MB정부 3년새 병역기피 두배로" [Draft evasion doubles in 3 years of MB government]. The Hankyoreh. 22 September 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "Intelligence pact derided by the North". Korea JoongAng Daily. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Defense chief calls 2nd Yeonpyeong Naval Battle victorious". The Korea Times. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "성균관대(학부) 출신 현직(19대) 국회의원" [Current Assemblymen who are former Sungkyunkwan undergraduates] (in Korean). Sungkyunkwan University.
  9. ↑ Ahn, Gyu-baek. "프로필" [Profile]. Retrieved 19 April 2016.


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