Ahn Sang-soo (Incheon mayor)
South Korean politician (born May 1946)
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Ahn Sang-soo (Korean: 안상수; Hanja: 安相洙; RR: An Sangsu; 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]
Ahn Sang-soo | |
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| 안상수 | |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 4 June 1999 – 29 May 2000 | |
| Preceded by | Kim Du-seop |
| Succeeded by | Song Young-gil |
| Constituency | Gyeyang-Ganghwa A (Incheon) |
| In office 30 April 2015 – 29 May 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Ahn Deok-su |
| Succeeded by | Lee Hak-jae, Shin Dong-kun |
| Constituency | Seo District-Ganghwa B(2015–2016) Jung District-Dong District-Ganghwa-Ongjin(2016–2020) |
| Mayor of Incheon | |
| In office 1 July 2002 – 30 June 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Choi Ki-sun |
| Succeeded by | Song Young-gil |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 May 1946 |
| Party | People Power Party |
| Spouse | Jeong Gyeong-im |
| Seoul National University | |
Religion | Christian(Methodist) |
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]
