Ahn Sang-soo | |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly |
Predecessor1: | Kim Du-seop |
Successor1: | Song Young-gil |
Term Start1: | 4 June 1999 |
Term End1: | 29 May 2000 |
Constituency1: | Gyeyang-Ganghwa A (Incheon) |
Term Start2: | 30 April 2015 |
Term End2: | 29 May 2020 |
Predecessor2: | Ahn Deok-su |
Successor2: | Lee Hak-jae, Shin Dong-kun |
Constituency2: | Seo District-Ganghwa B(2015~2016) Jung District-Dong District-Ganghwa-Ongjin(2016~2020) |
Office4: | Mayor of Incheon |
Predecessor4: | Choi Ki-sun |
Successor4: | Song Young-gil |
Term Start4: | 1 July 2002 |
Term End4: | 30 June 2010 |
Birth Date: | 28 May 1946 |
Birth Place: | Seosan, South Chungcheong, USAMGIK |
Party: | People Power Party |
Spouse: | Jeong Gyeong-im |
Blank1: | Religion |
Data1: | Christian(Methodist) |
Ahn Sang-soo (; born 28 May 1946) is a South Korean politician of the People Power Party who served as two-time mayor of Incheon from 2002 to 2010. In the 2010 local elections he lost his position to Song Young-gil of the Democratic Party.[1] He was a candidate for the Saenuri nomination in the 2012 presidential elections.[2] As mayor, Ahn was responsible for initiating a range of expensive construction projects which have been implicated in causing financial difficulties.[3]
On November 22, 2019, while serving in the National Assembly representing the opposition Liberty Korea party, he introduced an amendment to remove homophobia and transphobia from a list of violations of an anti-discrimination law.[4] He used a poster that compared homosexual marriage to a picture of a woman marrying a dog.[5]
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