Ahn Gyu-back

{{short description|South Korean politician}}

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| caption = Ahn in 2023

| name = Ahn Gyu-back

| native_name = {{nobold|안규백}}

| native_name_lang = ko

| office = Member of the National Assembly

| term_start = 30 May 2012

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| predecessor = Chang Kwang-keun

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| constituency = Seoul Dongdaemun A

| term_start1 = 30 May 2008

| term_end1 = 29 May 2012

| constituency1 = Proportional representation

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|4|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Gochang, North Jeolla, South Korea

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| citizenship = South Korean

| alma_mater = Sungkyunkwan University

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| party = Minjoo Party of Korea

| website = [http://safe100.or.kr safe100.or.kr]

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{{Infobox Korean name

| hangul = 안규백

| hanja = 安圭伯

| rr = An Gyubaek

| mr = An Kyubaek

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Ahn Gyu-back ({{korean|안규백|安圭伯}}; born 29 April 1961) is a South Korean politician in the liberal Democratic Party of Korea (DPK). 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,{{cite news|url=http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/10/12/2014101200771.html|script-title=ko:새정치연합 원내수석부대표에 안규백…원내대변인에 박완주·서영교|trans-title=Ahn Gyu-baek to become New Politics Alliance for Democracy deputy floor leader ... Pak Wan-ju and Seo Yeong-gyo as Assembly spokespeople|newspaper=ChosunBiz|date=12 October 2014|accessdate=18 April 2016|language=ko}} and remained in that position for seven months.{{cite news|url=http://news.joins.com/article/18793102|script-title=ko:안규백, 통합의 정치에 적임인 리더|trans-title=Ahn Gyu-baek, a leader fit for the politics of unity|newspaper=JoongAng Ilbo|date=5 October 2015|accessdate=18 April 2016|language=ko}} 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".{{efn|"안 의원을 추천한 조해진 새누리당 의원은 그에 대해 '성품이 정직하고 바르며 언제나 나라를 먼저 생각한다'고 이유를 설명했다."}} He subsequently became head of strategy and public relations for the NPAD on 23 June 2015.{{cite news|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/01/113_181446.html|title=Opposition divided over key post|newspaper=The Korea Times|date=23 June 2015|access-date=19 April 2016}}

A ranking member of the Assembly's National Defense Committee,{{cite news|url=http://www.jejusori.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=125135|script-title=ko:"삼성 때문에…" 공사강행 기업 탓 돌린 국방장관|trans-title="Because of Samsung...": Defense Minister turns to blame company rushing construction|newspaper=Jejusori|date=23 January 2013|accessdate=18 April 2016|language=ko}} 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,{{cite news|url=http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/politics/politics_general/497575.html|title=MB정부 3년새 병역기피 두배로|trans-title=Draft evasion doubles in 3 years of MB government|newspaper=The Hankyoreh|date=22 September 2011|accessdate=19 April 2016}} 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.{{cite news|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2999103|title=Intelligence pact derided by the North|newspaper=Korea JoongAng Daily|date=31 December 2014|accessdate=18 April 2016}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/03/205_181808.html|title=Defense chief calls 2nd Yeonpyeong Naval Battle victorious |newspaper=The Korea Times|date=29 June 2015|access-date=19 April 2016}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.skku.ac.kr/new_home/campus/skk_comm/news_view.jsp?bName=board_news&bCode=1&boardNum=30449|script-title=ko:성균관대(학부) 출신 현직(19대) 국회의원|trans-title=Current Assemblymen who are former Sungkyunkwan undergraduates|publisher=Sungkyunkwan University|language=ko|access-date=2016-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625181435/http://www.skku.ac.kr/new_home/campus/skk_comm/news_view.jsp?bName=board_news&bCode=1&boardNum=30449|archive-date=2016-06-25|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://safe100.or.kr/%ED%94%84%EB%A1%9C%ED%95%84/|script-title=ko:프로필|trans-title=Profile|last=Ahn|first=Gyu-baek|accessdate=19 April 2016}}