[Ahn Cheol-soo] Person Cheol-soo Ahn’s past, marriage, political career, etc.
1. Childhood and school days
He was born on February 26, 1962, in Busanjin-gu, Busan, the first of two sons and one daughter to his father Ahn Young-mo and mother Park Gwi-nam. He spent his childhood in a room in his father's hospital building with his mother and other siblings under his father, a neuropsychiatrist who runs a hospital in Beomcheon-dong, Busanjin-gu, Busan Metropolitan City. He likes to plant flowers, so he planted various kinds of flowers on the roof of the building, and it is said that the roof has already become a flower garden for young Ahn Cheol-soo. In addition to that, he is said to be very good at raising chickens, such as raising chickens, contrary to everyone's concern that the chicks he bought in front of the school will die soon. In addition to raising plants and animals, he said he enjoyed disassembling and reassembling machines. It is said that he once broke the grandfather clock of his relative's house. So relatives who knew him well said that on the day he came home, he hid all important machines.
Surprisingly, he said that he wasn't a very good student until he was in middle school. He was in the middle of his class, but it is said that he was a bookworm instead. He borrowed books from the school library every day, and he read all the borrowed books in one day and returned them the very next day. Perhaps it is the result of his constant reading when he was young, it is said that his grades have improved since he was in Busan High School. As a result, he is said to have been able to attend Seoul National University Medical School.
2. Marriage
In 1988, while attending Seoul National University College of Medicine, he married Kim Mi-kyung, a junior who he met while serving medical services at the Catholic Student Council. and had one daughter. Her wife is a pathologist and has served as a professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine and Seoul National University College of Medicine.
3. Military service
3-1. The picture was taken during the basic military training course for the 3rd Military Academy Medical Officer Candidates, given that the Republic of Korea Naval Military
Academy 3rd Military Academy unit mark and cadet number tag are attached to the uniform. Candidates for special cadets receive basic military training from the army, and the type of military service to be finally commissioned is determined before commissioning. Currently, the educational institution for training courses has been changed to the Army Student Military School.
He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Navy in February 1991 and served until April 1994. After applying for long-term service and passing, the final rank is Captain. Due to the nature of the Navy medics and personnel, they also served in the Marine Corps, so there is a connection with the Marine Corps.
3-2. Hexagonal Corrosion Forced Criticism and Objection
When I was a naval surgeon, the issue of leaving the Wisu area was controversial over the fact that I flew back and forth from Jinhae, my work place, to Seoul every weekend. However, it is a misunderstanding stemming from the army-oriented way of thinking, and there was no problem in terms of regulations for the navy without the concept of wisu area. At worst, even the navy officials struggled to endure the heat of the fire and replied, 'This is no problem'.
Unlike the army, the reference point for return of non-naval personnel during an emergency call is hourly, not regional. For example, in the case of 2nd Fleet naval service workers, they must wait within a 30-minute distance where they can return to their units, and Jinhae land workers have a long time to return to their units. The Chamsuri-class high-speed boat has a 5-minute wait, so it's like living in a campground. The eagle BOQ is also in the unit. In theory, residents of the Navy and Air Force out of the country will have no problem going anywhere in the country outside of work hours as long as they can keep the set return time during an emergency call whether they are flying a private plane or warp with superpowers. In addition, in the case of vacationers, unless a separate return order for vacationers is accompanied, they are excluded from emergency calls until the end of the vacation, and even if the return order is issued, the time is extended.
4. Doctors, vaccine developers
As a doctor, he chose basic medicine research instead of clinical medicine and continued his studies as a graduate student in the physiology department. At that time, his goal was to become a professor of rheumatology, but he was still interested in machines, so he bought a computer. So he said he barely bought a computer with the bare minimum of parts to really run it, and then fell in love with it.
One day in 1988, a virus infiltrated his own computer, which was a major turning point that changed Ahn's life. He says he spent most of the night wrestling with a virus-infected computer. And from then on, he devoted himself to developing vaccines on his own. Eventually, he quit the doctor and later established AhnLab. He went from a doctor who heals people to a doctor who repairs computers.
The world's first vaccine is estimated to have been released in 1987. Considering that V3 was first distributed in June 1988, the timing of Ahn's vaccine distribution is also very fast. After being discharged from the military, he gave up his professorship at the medical school and concentrated on research on computer virus vaccine development. This company is today's AhnLab.
Although he has a history of even starting an IT company, there is a saying that he still types by looking at the keyboard.
5. Executives
In March 1995, he founded the Ahn Cheol-soo Computer Virus Research Center. However, in the beginning, there were only four employees, and they did not have the money to buy an office, so the employees worked in their own homes. It is said that the wages of the employees were not enough, so they borrowed money from their parents. I had such a difficult four years, but since 1998, Ahn Cheol-soo's exemplary management and refusal of McAfee's takeover offer were reported in earnest, and Ahn's name began to be known. While doing so, he rose to the top spot in IT companies and began to spread his reputation as the Korean version of Bill Gates.
In September 2000, the company changed its name to Ahn Cheol-soo Research Institute, and served as its CEO until 2005.
As a manager, he was an exemplary manager. At the time he was serving as the CEO of Ahn Cheol-soo Research Institute, he never had a borrowing business. Many consider this to be an exemplary venture business management example. In addition, AhnLab does not consider academic background, appearance, or gender when hiring. Even though this may seem obvious, many companies still nail their academic background to a college degree or higher. Related Content Of course, the above is described as a good company because it has low debt, but a company with debt does not mean a bad company. In modern accounting, it is important to have a certain amount of debt because a company without debt will self-destruct due to internal collapse because it is not subject to external pressure and because it cannot take an aggressive strategy without debt. However, at the time, Ahn Research Institute was a company that developed vaccines based on necessity without any profit model, so it may have been a company that could not borrow money in the first place unless someone invested in it.
As he left the institute, he gave 1.5% of the stock for free to 100 employees who had worked since the beginning (about Ahn's 1.5% stock distribution), but perhaps not all, Ahn Cheol-soo currently holds a 37.1% stake in AhnLab. This is equivalent to 335 billion won. And in an article in 2011, a non-conceptual comment accusing me of being a bourgeois intelligent leftist who doesn't even work in a research institute but has stocks has risen to the top of the list.
However, at a meeting with the employees, when an employee asked, "What would you do if there was a union in the company?", he replied, "I have to close the company." An anecdote about how the atmosphere froze after entering politics was introduced on the Internet, causing controversy over the view of labor. . Attorney Geum Tae-seop, who served as a spokesperson for Saejeong-ryun, said, "I've dealt with labor issues several times since (author) <Thoughts of Ahn Cheol-soo>, and there was a separate labor field in the presidential campaign. I don't think about it at all. It is not possible to confirm the facts of the statement immediately. It is not desirable to write this with a strange message."
5-1. Ahn Cheol-soo V3
A representative antivirus brand is V3. The reason I jumped into the production of antivirus for computers was to find a way to manually treat the brain virus that appeared in the late 1980s, when PC communication was in the early days, and program it to create 'Vaccine', the first Korean antivirus. it was from When I sprayed this on the VT, many people cheered. When the Michelangelo virus eradication function was added as the version was gradually upgraded, the name was solidified as Vaccine 3, or V3 for short, which is still being used. From V3, a separate version number was assigned, and that version number was the number of malware that V3 could catch. V3 Ver. If it was 100, you could catch 100 viruses. The impact of V3 can also be seen in the fact that many in Korea refer to antivirus programs for computers as 'antivirus for computers'.
Even though there was no program to compete with in Korea, the vaccine was not commercialized, and when we moved to the Windows era and paid for the vaccine, I heard from many elementary school students, "It's very bad to sell vaccines that fix viruses for money." do. At this time, the media also reported negatively about the commercialization of vaccines. However, even if it is just like this, we continued to upgrade the version of V3+Neo, which is practically a free version. The problem is that v3+neo did not have a real-time detection function, and the trend of vaccines at the time was that they secured a DB with free vaccines and sold paid vaccines with additional functions for operators & core users. V3 after the 2000s was very outdated in terms of free vaccines (and data collection, image management), and it took a long time to recover from the aftermath.
5-2. Ahn Cheol-soo after retirement V3
After Ahn Cheol-soo left the company for studying, the Ahn Research Institute sparked countless controversies. After Ahn Cheol-soo's departure, AhnLab made nonsense such as 'free vaccines are not the trend of the world', and the free V3 only supported DOS versions such as V3+Neo. . Of course, switching to a paid service was a necessary measure, but the business model of newbies in the security industry at the time when the CEO of AhnLab said that 'free vaccines are not the world's trend' was to provide free antivirus/firewall to individual users. It was changing to target the corporate market after expanding the DB through feedback from individual users. It was AhnLab at the time that he could not read the trend of the world. Even in the early days, V3 was a free antivirus that was ahead of its time, but I did not intend to use it. The most serious thing is that the lack of performance of the V3 was not improved while trying to make up for it with a sound like 'Korean indigenization'. At this time, there were all kinds of ugly reviews such as that the V3 could only catch half of what Kaspersky could catch, and it took quite a long time to overcome the bad image of the V3.
In the end, after many twists and turns, we are now distributing V3 Lite, a free antivirus for Windows, and getting a good response. Since around 2015, it has been showing good results in overseas benchmarks as well.
6. Educator
In March 1990, at the age of 28, he was appointed as a professor at Dankook University College of Medicine. In his 20s, he became the youngest professor, and also the head of the department. There is a bit of a situation here, but Ahn Cheol-soo himself was interested in basic research rather than clinical medicine and majored in basic medicine, physiology, instead of internship and residency courses. It was unusually fast to be a professor. At that time, Ahn Cheol-soo was not in the military and did not have a doctorate, so it was possible to become a professor at the age of 28, and it was a time when there were not enough professors of basic medicine to that extent. In addition, the reason why I took on the role of the head of the department is because I am younger than the other professors, so I have to take on the head of the department with a lot of troublesome work. He obtained his doctorate in 1991, a year after his appointment, and took a leave of absence from Dankook University and enlisted in the military. He returned to work after being discharged from the military and continued his teaching career for a while, but quit after a year and established a company.
After founding the Society, he obtained his EMTM from the University of Pennsylvania, USA from 1995 to 1997. It is a process in which people in the middle management to executive positions go to work during the week and go to school on the weekends to obtain a master's degree in two years. Sometimes it is mistaken for a master's degree in computer science, but it has nothing to do with it. A master's degree on how to run a company in the manufacturing or IT industry.
Perhaps this was not enough, he resigned as the company's CEO in 2005 and went back to study abroad at the age of forty, and obtained an EMBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
After returning to Korea in 2008, he was appointed as a chair professor in the Department of Management Science at KAIST. There is a rumor that he had an active recommendation from the founder of Future Industry, Jung Moon-sul. In fact, Ahn Cheol-soo's position is Professor Jeong Mun-sul. During his first year, he taught mainly undergraduate students, and from the following year he taught graduate students. As an aside, <Entrepreneurial Mindset>, a class for teaching undergraduates, was well-known as a famous lecture. He used Harvard Business Review cases as class materials, and he paid all the copyright fees for each part at his own expense without making copies of the originals as well as the materials to be distributed to students.
In 2011, after receiving a love call from Seoul National University, he transferred to Seoul National University as the dean of the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology. To summarize his path as an educator, he quit his medical school career and started a successful venture as CEO of a venture company, but he quit again and went on to study abroad to become a professor of business administration.
7. Running for mayor of Seoul
7-1. Regarding running for mayor of Seoul
Ahn Cheol-soo has received many offers to enter politics from the opposition and political circles. Due to the support of young people, the Grand National Party once offered to run for Seoul special mayor in the 2006 local election, and once received an offer for the position of Minister of Information and Communication from the Participatory Government. . Ahn Cheol-soo said, “I refused because I was not confident in politics and did not enjoy power.” “I want to contribute to society in a practical way. There is little chance of going into politics in the future,” he said.
As such, Ahn Cheol-soo has consistently denied entering into politics, but since August 2011, Yoon Yeo-joon became a hot topic when she announced to the media his political remarks, "There is a possibility that Ahn Cheol-soo will run for mayor of Seoul (re-election)." Many people became interested in the ambiguous change of Ahn Cheol-soo's position, who had previously denied his entry into politics, and held an emergency press conference with dozens of reporters at the 'Youth Concert' held in September. Rumors of Ahn's candidacy made both the Grand National Party and the Democratic Party nervous, and as a non-political figure receiving overwhelming support from young people, it is also because the parties have failed every time despite their efforts to recruit Ahn Cheol-soo.
Ahn Cheol-soo heard three things that 'the most important thing when trying to do something'.
1. Whether it’s something that I can really feel meaningful about
2. Whether it’s something I can continue to do with passion in the future
3. Whether it’s something I can actually do well and benefit others
Among them, Ahn Cheol-soo said, “I felt the meaning, but the question about (2) and (3) was not answered, so I refused (candidate). He said he was not sure whether he would be able to do well in reconciling people with interests, but about the lack of administrative experience raised by some, he said, “I have experienced graduate school dean and CEO of a large corporation, so administrative operation is not very different from this. There will be,” he said confidently. However, he said, “I will not go to the Grand National Party because of the public sentiment.”
Ahn Cheol-soo criticized the Grand National Party and the Lee Myung-bak administration and said, “In my opinion, it is the current ruling power that is going against the wave of history. The Grand National Party must be punished and pay a price, so that history can progress.” “Then the answer is clear. I am opposed to any political expansion of the current ruling power in Korean society. If I choose a path, the most important coordinates of that path will be this (as opposed to the GNP having political scalability),” he said. He added, “I experienced the 1970s (the era of the Park Chung-hee dictatorship). (Watching what the current ruling powers are doing) Ah! I thought it could go the other way around.”
Regarding the concerns about running for mayor of Seoul, Ahn Cheol-soo said, "It's not that I started worrying about it because it's the administration.... Right now, (Seoul mayor) is open for so many things. That was the starting point of the trouble. It really means that you shouldn't work as a mayor for political purposes that are not really qualified," he said. As this perception of Ahn Cheol-soo was revealed, the Democratic Party actively promoted the recruitment of Ahn Cheol-soo. Ahn Cheol-soo also announced that he would hold talks with Park Won-soon as the Democratic Party was recruiting Park Won-soon, a lawyer who acted as a permanent director of Hope Factory, as a candidate for Seoul mayor.
He has never confirmed his candidacy for mayor of Seoul and said he would make a decision after observing further opinion polls. “I am worried about this part because I have the idea that it will take at least 10 years to change Seoul through administrative operation,” he said. Regarding the 'Yoon Yeo-jun mentor theory' raised by some people, Ahn Cheol-soo said, "I have never personally met Yoon Yeo-jun. To be honest, I didn’t even know her name until I first met Yoon Yeo-jun three months ago.” “If that person is my mentor, there are about 300 people who act as my mentors, and Kim Je-dong and Kim Yeo-jin, who are much younger than me, also mentor me. You can say that,” he denied. He said, “There are many things that a politician, a member of the National Assembly, cannot change alone, but an administrator such as the president or the mayor of Seoul can change many things on his own, so I felt the meaning.” Ahn Cheol-soo more than doubled Na Kyung-won (13-17%), who ranked second in the Kookmin Ilbo poll with 35% approval rating. Regarding his high approval rating, he said, "People's distrust of the existing political system is incomparable. It is the worst in history since the founding of the country. A person like me, who is still in his 40s, has not yet decided whether or not to run for office, but when parties with such a long history are shaken all at once, that is the public sentiment. There is no support for me,” he said.
Ahn Cheol-soo cited the hardware-oriented administration as the biggest problem of Seoul, and added political opinions on specific improvements.
“ (Now the Seoul Metropolitan Government) has been completely engrossed in hardware, so only projects that are visible to others have been (progressed). Various software, the inconvenience of real people, and crisis management are neglected. In software, for example, road signs are unprincipled. A left turn suddenly occurs while going straight and these things are not unified. I don't even care what to do about traffic jams. Parking is also very serious. One of the ways to solve such a problem is to install a sensor in a street parking lot, etc. If this is made into public data, the city of Seoul can use it to provide information (to citizens) about where seats are vacant with a smartphone app or computer program. Energy problems and pollution problems can be solved. The government should make the data public. Developed countries are all open. Then, citizens process the data to create good information and start a business. Actively disseminating data unrelated to national supplementation creates jobs. Those people (politics) have no such idea. If you don't have your own field of expertise for the rest of your life, it's hard to come up with such an idea. ”
He also criticized the fact that the existing political forces have created divisions. “If you have a conservative view on the North Korean issue and a progressive view on the education issue, is it progressive or conservative? It cannot be divided. People who benefit from dividing it and dividing it do this.”
7-2. Announcement of not running for mayor of Seoul
On September 4, 2011, when media attention was focused on whether Ahn Cheol-soo would run for Seoul mayor, major media companies conducted an opinion poll, and Ahn's approval rating was overwhelming in all opinion polls, but Ahn Cheol-soo hopes for Park Won-soon, whom he has had a special relationship with for a long time. He told the executive director of the production company that he could give up his candidacy on September 5 the next day, and the next day, September 6, at 4 pm, he met with Won-soon Park and after only 17 minutes of conversation, he announced that he had unified it as Park Won-soon. Once again, many reporters flocked to the election because 'who will run for office' and 'whether to be unified' will all bring about a big change in the election landscape. Ahn Cheol-soo said at this point:
“Today, I met a respected colleague, Lawyer Park Won-soon, and fully listened to his aspirations and will. He is a beautiful and wonderful person who can serve as the mayor of Seoul better than anyone else as a person who has blossomed a new flower in civil society while devoting himself to our society. I think that expectations for me are also expressed through me as a desire for change in our society. We will sincerely comfort and encourage our precious future generations. I would also like to thank Director Park Kyung-cheol for understanding me emotionally for the longest time so far. There are no conditions for unification. I will not run for office. As you just said, I hope that you will become the mayor and fulfill your will.”
Regarding the unification, Park Won-soon said, "Neither of them wanted mayor positions. He said, "I was really interested in creating a new world, so I came to such a conclusion that was not understood by common sense." Park Won-soon also said about Ahn Cheol-soo, "No matter how trustworthy there is, it's really hard to believe that someone who had 10 times more support than me would yield with one word (my words) saying 'I can do better' without any conditions. "I think it was possible because Professor Ahn was a person who did it for some public interest in society rather than for personal gain," he said. Afterwards, Park Won-soon, Han Myung-sook, and Moon Jae-in said, “In order to win the election, we need to create a 1:1 composition with the Grand National Party through a single candidate from the pan-citizen opposition. Park Won-soon and Han Myung-sook (referred to as candidates for Seoul mayor) cooperate with each other to elect a single pan-citizen opposition candidate, and after that, they will do everything in their power to win the election.”
Regarding Ahn Cheol-soo's declaration not to run, OhmyNews CEO Oh Yeon-ho said, "(Director Ahn) made concessions to Attorney Park Won-soon, who had an approval rating of 5% even with a 50% approval rating. It was an open acknowledgment of the symbols and values of civil society that the Cho Jung-dong and Lee Myung-bak regimes persecuted and ignored so much. It's another shocking coming out," said Cho Kuk, a professor at Seoul National University's School of Law, "Despite his superior support, Professor Ahn's concessions. A big round of applause There will be other 'uses' of this person. With this election as an opportunity, there are signs that the political landscape will change. We must face the Seoul mayor election, general election, and presidential election with great unity,” he said. Jin Joong-kwon posted on his Twitter, "Ahn Cheol-soo, you're really a 'person'. With this kind of craze, a normal person would get drunk even if he was sane, but he willingly yielded to the 50% approval rating. Please help lawyer Park this time, and spread your will in a bigger water than that.”
Ahn Young-mo, Ahn's father, said, "When I heard that Ahn Cheol-soo was running for mayor, my family called me every day and said, 'I'd rather not go.' But his son was also over 50. He'll take care of himself. We'll stop him. From now on, I'm not going to say anything and I'm just going to watch."
Ahn Cheol-soo and Park Won-soon were unified, but Park Won-soon's approval rating for Seoul mayor candidate was only 5% so far, so 'whether Park Won-soon absorbs Ahn's supporters' and 'whether he joins the Democratic Party' emerged as major issues. In a public opinion poll conducted after the unification, Park Won-soon and Ahn Cheol-soo and her support rate rose sharply thanks to her unification, beating Na Kyung-won to take first place. In the results of the survey conducted over the home phone, conservative people answered many of the answers, but in the cell phone poll, where people of various classes can ask their opinions, Won-soon Park won 51.6%, overwhelming Na Kyung-won with 32.5%. After that, Park Won-soon was finally elected mayor of Seoul.
7-3. mentioned as a potential presidential candidate
The media reported on the public's interest in Ahn Cheol-soo with expressions such as 'Ahn Cheol-soo's syndrome' and 'frenzy'. After Ahn Cheol-soo's overwhelming approval rating for the Seoul mayor candidate, the media included Ahn Cheol-soo in the polls for the next presidential election. In the 1:1 virtual match against Park Geun-hye, Ahn Cheol-soo recorded 43.2% and defeated Park Geun-hye, who recorded 40.6%. It is the first time Park Geun-hye has ranked second in her approval rating for the next presidential election under the Lee Myung-bak administration. In the mobile phone poll, Ahn Cheol-soo was 59.0% and Park Geun-hye was 32.6%, and the gap widened further. In particular, among opposition candidates, it was twice as many as Moon Jae-in (16%), who took second place with 31% approval.
Ahn Cheol-soo received more than 60% of support from young people in their 20s and 30s, college students, white-collar, and Honam regions, and also surpassed Park Geun-hye by showing a 54% approval rating in Seoul. However, Ahn Cheol-soo did not clarify his position on the 2012 presidential run. On September 7, 2011, Ahn Cheol-soo, on his way to work, said to reporters who asked whether he would run for the next presidential election, "It's not even feasible. actually. I don't even have time to think about it..." he said. Then, as rumors of running for the general election in the Gangnam district of Seoul circulated, he held a press conference on December 1, 2011 and said, "There are many theories, such as the founding of the 3rd party or running for Gangnam, but what is clear is that we do not intend to do so and there is no possibility of that." A reporter asking for a run for president I did not answer their questions.
Also, some heard that Ahn Cheol-soo had already had political ambitions and had been receiving 'tutorials' aimed at the presidential election in November 2011. Regarding the North Korean issue, it is known that Kim Geun-sik, a professor at Kyungnam University, who is a supporter of the Sunshine Policy, helped Ahn Cheol-soo. In addition, it was reported that experts such as opposition lawmakers were helping Ahn Cheol-soo in various fields such as the economy and international relations. In a phone call with the press, Professor Kim Geun-sik said, "There is a saying about Ahn Cheol-soo, 'The economy is progressive, security is conservative,' and I felt that it was actually similar to my point of view." Meanwhile, Kim Hyo-seok, a member of the Democratic United Party, led the meeting between Ahn Cheol-soo and experts. Kim Jong-in, a member of the Grand National Party's emergency response committee, an acquaintance of Ahn Cheol-soo, said, "Since last October, the leaders of the Democratic United Party came up with ideas, and President Ahn joined the study group."
8. Political Participation and the 18th Presidential Election
On January 25, 2012, Moon Seong-geun, top member of the Democratic United Party, said to Ahn Cheol-soo, dean of the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology at Seoul National University, "If you are planning to run for the presidential election, it is polite to enter the primary of the Democratic United Party and be chosen by the people." On April 16, 2012, the JoongAng Ilbo reported that Ahn Cheol-soo had solidified his decision to run for president before the 19th general election, but Ahn's close associates denied this.
On July 19 of the same year, Ahn Cheol-soo published a collection of political talks, Ahn Cheol-soo's thoughts. He wrote in this book as far as he knew what he thought about important national events, and the political circles accepted it as revealing his political ambitions by publishing, even if the quality of the book was low. He appeared on SBS's entertainment program Healing Camp on July 18, one day before the book was published, and recorded it, and it was broadcast on July 23.
On September 19 of the same year, Ahn Cheol-soo announced his candidacy for the 18th presidential election. He was a powerful presidential candidate in various opinion polls, but there were various frictions in the process of unification with Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Unionist Party, and on November 23, 2012, he held an emergency press conference and announced his resignation from the candidacy. On December 6, Ahn Cheol-soo announced that he would fully support Moon Jae-in. From December 7 to 18, he held a joint campaign with Moon Jae-in four times in Busan, Gunpo, Daejeon, and Gwanghwamun for 12 days. I applied for support in a female place. Moon Jae-in was defeated by Saenuri Party candidate Park Geun-hye in the December 19, 2012 presidential election.
9. Elected to the National Assembly
Ahn Cheol-soo, who was elected as an independent with 60.5% of the votes in the by-election for the Nowon-byeong National Assembly member held on April 24, 2013, hoped to be assigned to the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee without consulting the Speaker of the National Assembly, who has the authority to assign independent members of the National Assembly standing committee. Minority Leaders Lee Han-gu and Park Ki-chun agreed to assign Ahn Cheol-soo to the Health and Welfare Committee. In response, National Assembly Speaker Kang Chang-hee summoned Lee Han-gu and Park Ki-chun, the ruling and opposition party leaders, and rebuked them for ignoring the National Assembly Act, and the Health and Welfare Committee rejected Ahn Cheol-soo's application to be assigned to the Health and Welfare Committee. Then, on May 23, Kang Chang-hee directly assigned Ahn Cheol-soo to the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee, and in consideration of the agreement between the ruling and opposition floor leaders, Ahn Cheol-soo was assigned to the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee, National Assembly spokesman Bae Seong-rye told the media.
9-1. Co-CEO of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy inaugurated
Meanwhile, Ahn Cheol-soo announced the launch of the New Politics Promotion Committee with the People on November 28, 2013. The promotion committee seemed to be the mother of the new Ahn Cheol-soo party, which was planned to be built in the future. On January 21 of the following year, he declared that he would form a formal party within March. In February, he formed the New Politics Alliance founding preparatory committee and started work on the founding of a new party. In March, he and Kim Han-gil, chairman of the Democratic Party, declared the founding of a new party in the 3rd zone. took office. However, the New Politics Alliance for Democracy suffered a devastating defeat in the re-election in July 2014, and subsequently resigned as its representative.
9-2. Leaving the New Politics Alliance for Democracy
In a lecture at Chosun University, President Moon Jae-in suggested that the leadership be formed by Moon Jae-in, Ahn Cheol-soo, and Park Won-soon, that is, Moon. Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo again proposed the innovation squadron as a counter proposal, but President Moon Jae-in rejected it. On December 6th, Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo effectively issued an ultimatum to President Moon Jae-in at the Jeongrongwan of the National Assembly, asking him to reconsider his rejection of the Innovation Squadron. However, President Moon Jae-in rejected it again. After an ultimatum-type press conference on the 6th, he was on a hiatus and returned to his home in Nowon-gu on the 12th. Around midnight on the 12th, President Moon Jae-in came to his home in Nowon-gu to prevent Ahn Cheol-soo from leaving the party, but it failed with only shaking hands outside. On the morning of the 13th, when the press conference was scheduled, on the way to the Jeongrongwan of the National Assembly, I spoke on the phone with President Moon Jae-in in the car to negotiate, but the negotiations were unsuccessful. At around 10 am on the same day, Rep. Ahn Cheol-su left the New Politics Alliance for Democracy at the Jeongrongwan of the National Assembly and declared his departure from the party to create a political force capable of regime change.
9-3. Founding of the People's Party and Advancement in the General Election
It was founded on February 2, 2016, led by Ahn Cheol-soo, Kim Han-gil, and Cheon Jeong-bae, who left the New Politics Alliance for Democracy (now the Democratic Party) around December 13, 2015. The English name is "The People's Party". From January 1 to January 6, 2016, a party name contest was held with the people, and the name of the party was confirmed as "People's Party". Then, on January 10th, the founding promoters' meeting was held and the founding preparatory committee was officially launched with Yoon Yeo-jun and Han Sang-jin as co-chairs. On January 11, the name of the People's Party was registered with the Election Commission. And on February 2nd, the founding convention of the Central Party was held, and Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo and Cheon Jeong-bae were elected as co-representatives and officially launched. (Ahn Cheol-soo - standing co-representative, Cheon Jeong-bae - co-representative)
In March 2016, when Kim Jong-in, head of the Emergency Response Committee of the Democratic Party of Korea at the time, made a remark about “integration”, Kim Han-gil and Cheon Jeong-bae showed a positive reaction to the integration, but Ahn Cheol-soo rejected the proposal for unification, saying there was no opposition union, and the unification was ultimately canceled. In the subsequent general election, the People's Party achieved a great result, with 38 seats, unlike the pre-election poll, and a three-party system was created after 16 years of female soya and 20 years. However, unlike the great achievements in Honam, the lack of meaningful achievements in the rest of the region is a limitation. Later, during the April 13 general election, Park Seon-sook and Kim Su-min, of the same party, were responsible for the alleged rebate of election promotion expenses and resigned as representative.
10. 19th Presidential Candidate
On March 20, 2017, at Mike Impact Square in Jongno-gu, Seoul, he officially declared his candidacy for the 19th presidential election, saying, "I will become a president who protects the values of fairness, freedom, responsibility, peace and the future." After competing with Sohn Hak-gyu and Park Joo-seon in the internal primary, he was elected as the 19th presidential candidate of the People's Party. Immediately after the election of the presidential candidate, the approval rating surged, showing a single digit gap with Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party in various opinion polls, forming a two-way structure. In the end, in the presidential election held on May 9, he received 21.4% of the votes and was defeated in 3rd place after candidate Hong Jun-pyo of the Liberty Korea Party.
11. Promoting integration with the Bareun Party
In October 2017, Ahn Cheol-soo launched a full-fledged discussion with the Bareun Party based on the results of the party's own opinion poll. Afterwards, a vote was held by all party members to ask for the re-confidence of the party leader, and 74.6% of the voters supported the integration. Some lawmakers in Honam, including Park Ji-won and Yoo Seong-yeop, who protested against this process, left the party and formed the Democratic and Peace Party. Then, on February 11, 2018, the Bareun Mirae Party was founded as the union with the Bareun Party was approved with a vote of 73.6% in the vote of all party members, and Ahn Cheol-soo resigned from his post.
12. Losing Seoul Mayor
In April 2018, in front of the main building of the Seoul City Council, he officially announced his candidacy for the 7th Seoul Special Mayor. He made various promises, such as introducing an elementary school all day, promoting the development of a new town in Seoul, and relocating the entire 57 km section of the Seoul subway. He has been hit hard by this defeat and has announced that he will step down from the political front after five years and nine months of entering politics.
13. Founding of the People's Party and Corona
In February 2020, Ahn Cheol-soo founded the People's Party and became its first president. He announced that he would not run for the 21st general election. He announced that he would run for Seoul special mayor in the 2021 by-election. Afterwards, he won the third zone unification contest against Geum Tae-seop. On March 23, People's Strength candidate Oh Se-hoon was elected as the single opposition candidate.
From March 1, 2020, he visited Keimyung University Daegu Dongsan Hospital in Daegu Metropolitan City, where the coronavirus infection-19 is epidemic, and volunteered to treat suspected patients at a screening clinic. Her wife, Kim Mi-kyung, a professor at Seoul National University, also participated. Ahn Cheol-soo said that for the time being, he plans to do medical activities in Daegu Metropolitan City as a volunteer. Because of this, all of Ahn's personal political schedules were canceled.
Some people raised suspicions about Ahn Cheol-soo, asking whether it was true that he had a proper doctor's license or whether he had properly renewed his doctor's license. However, the Korean Medical Association announced that Ahn Cheol-soo and Kim Mi-kyung were model doctors who completed doctor-related education programs such as the Korean Medical Association every year with at least 30 points, and there was no problem with their doctor's license. After returning from medical service, he and his wife self-quarantined for two weeks according to regulations, and the virus test was also negative.
On April 27, he and his wife again went down to Daegu for indefinite medical service. As Seoul Special Mayor Park Won-soon committed suicide on July 9th, the 2021 by-election will be held as a strong candidate for the Seoul mayor's opposition. Representative Ahn also ran for mayor of Seoul in the last branch election, and since the position of mayor of Seoul is the No. 2 elected office in the Republic of Korea, he may choose this by-election instead of running for the 20th presidential election. On July 23, he said, "I have never thought about the possibility of running as a single opposition candidate in the Seoul mayor's by-election to be held in April next year, and I have no plans to think about it in the future." However, it is known that Rep. Kwon Eun-hee, who is close to pro-an, is still considering running for mayor of Seoul, saying, "I am seriously considering running for mayor of Seoul Ahn Cheol-soo."
Since the launch of the People's Power, floor leader Joo Ho-young has been receiving love calls, but Kim Jong-in, the vice chairman, is known to have a negative stance. Chairman Kim Jong-in joined the People's Party after leaving the Democratic Party, but it seems to have changed to a negative position after seeing the political capabilities Ahn Cheol-soo showed at the time. On September 24, 2020, a forum drew a line saying, "If the people's power is united with the People's Party, what can be achieved. It will not have much effect."
14. 20th Presidential Election
On November 1, 2021, he announced his candidacy for the 20th presidential election. [19] As a result, there were mixed concerns about whether to unify with the main candidates, given the precedents of the re-election in the second half of 2011, the 18th presidential election, and the re-election in 2021, but for the first time, they declared that they would complete the presidential election without unification.
15. About Ahn Cheol-soo
15-1. philosophy
Ahn Cheol-soo treats everyone with respect, regardless of age or status. Ahn Cheol-soo, who can't speak nonsense to other people, even had a hard time speaking nonsense to the soldiers even when he was serving as a military doctor. Ahn, who is different from ordinary people in that he uses respect for people and family members of lower social status, such as nurses, AhnLab staff, and students he teaches, when asked if they have a marital fight, Ahn said, “I do it with respect. My mother, who used to speak respectfully, was a big influence,” he said. My mother treated Ahn Cheol-soo with respect every time, and it was the same when she scolded me. I took my mother's respectful words for granted, but when I was in the first year of high school, I overslept and when I was taking a taxi to school, my mother said, "Good luck to school." He mistook him for Ina's real sister and said, "Your sister is really nice," but later revealed that she was a mother and heard "How can a mother speak respectfully" and realized that her mother's respectful words were not common.
I have said that I have an exemplary private life. I drank often when I was in Seoul National University Medical School, but since my health deteriorated due to excessive drinking while running a company, I have stopped drinking and do not smoke at all ( For reference, Ahn Cheol-soo's health deteriorated seriously while running the company even though he was hospitalized due to excessive drinking and overwork). And he has never been angry or swear words in front of employees or others. Others point out that Ahn leads a Puritan life, but he said he did not agree with that statement. He thought that he had never put up with anything and had lived a comfortable life. He said that fame is more important than money, and that he has lived his life that way. I prided myself on having a fun and meaningful life every moment, but he said, "If I had continued my life as a doctor, I would have had a much simpler and more focused life, but I have no regrets because it means that I was able to have a variety of experiences because of quitting the doctor."
In terms of efficiency, Ahn Cheol-soo says he is the most inefficient person. But he says people aren't all about efficiency. He said, “The time you spend to find the right field for you is valuable time,” and he thinks that “the greatest gift you can give yourself is to give yourself a chance.”
Meanwhile, Ahn Cheol-soo says that the timing was right for him to be very successful. Viruses can be analyzed only if they know machine language, and they came across this path when they learned machine language at the right time and encountered a virus. “Luck is the moment when opportunity meets preparation.” He says that everyone has an opportunity, but only those who are prepared can have it as their own. “Successful people are a combination of talent, hard work, and luck, and society has given them a chance, so they have to recognize it,” he says.
15-2. management
Ahn Cheol-soo believes that the CEO is not the highest-ranking person, only a different role. The basic philosophy is that they are in a horizontal relationship and that the CEO is only responsible for representing the company externally. He felt that running a company should do something that breathes the soul. Although it is a company of different people, if these people have a common belief, it is the idea that they can continue without change even if they do not have confidence or change members.
In the past, viruses were created for the purpose of pranks, but recently viruses are often used as a means of making money. After finding out personal information through the distribution of the virus, it was used to blackmail the personal information of Koreans in China, etc., and the Russian mafia was mobilized to become an organized crime. Ahn Cheol-soo said, “Vaccine companies must have a high sense of mission because they have an ironic profit structure in which the higher the crime rate (virus), the higher the profits.” He also emphasized, “If you start a vaccine business as a means of making money, it will rather harm society,” but the same applies to police and military personnel. For this, the efforts of upper-class people are important, but the reality is that this is not the case. For example, even in the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, the key figures in the case If you go up to the upper floors, there are many elite graduates who have graduated from prestigious universities, and they are often the cause of the problem. Ahn Cheol-soo said, "I also have a sense of skepticism about how smart people can help our society." When he was taking a law class at the Wharton School's San Francisco MBA, the professor said, "There were some smart students who had no choice but to give them A grades, but 10 years later, most of them were in prison." Smart but pursuing personal success He said that he started to question whether this would help our society.
Ahn Cheol-soo said that he felt hesitant to compare himself with Bill Gates, saying, "It's because the fields are different, the perception of software is different, and the size of the company is huge." On November 14, 2011, Ahn Cheol-soo announced that he would return half of his 37.1% stake in the Ahn Research Institute to society for the education of children of low-income families. As of December 9, 2011, the value of the stock he will donate is about 250 billion won. On February 5, 2012, Park Young-sook was elected as the chairman of the public interest foundation that Ahn Cheol-soo would donate his property to establish. With this change, Chairman Kim Young was appointed.
15-3. education
"If parents just tell their children to read and don't show them how to read, they don't copy it," he says. Children can only imitate reading books if they don't set an example and force them. Therefore, he emphasized that it is important for parents to lead by example in order to develop the reading habit of children.
15-4. Ventures and SMEs
Ahn Cheol-soo once said, “95% of venture companies in Korea go bankrupt.” Some say, “The current generation is too safety-oriented. I have no spirit of challenge.” Ahn Cheol-soo disagrees with this. Ahn Cheol-soo, who has taught students at KAIST, believes that each student is not like that. “Students still have a spirit of challenge and curiosity,” he said. “However, the bigger problem is the social structure that forces students with such a strong spirit to make safety-oriented choices with greater power.” . Silicon Valley in the US is said to be the cradle of success, but Ahn Cheol-soo changes it to “the cradle of failure.” The reason for this is as follows.
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In Silicon Valley, if 100 companies appear, 99 of them will fail and only one will survive. If the failed company has no moral problems and has done its best, it will continue to give opportunities. Even if you fail 99 times, if you succeed once and succeed 1,000 times, you will have more than enough to pay off all your failures.
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He thinks that this is the success model of Silicon Valley in the US, and he said that continuing to give opportunities to those who failed is the way to revive the spirit of challenge of young people, and the way to save ventures and youth.
15-5. evaluation
- He donated about 150 billion won of property.[119] According to '2015 Member of Parliament's Property Changes and Registration Matters', Ahn Cheol-soo's remaining assets are 77.849 billion won. On September 19, 2012, the New York Times described Ahn Cheol-soo, who declared his candidacy for president, as a 'Korean political star'.
- France's AFP news agency described him as "an unspoiled figure in corruption, politics and corporate power". Japan's far-right newspaper, the Sankei Shimbun, evaluated him as "a fresh figure different from politicians up to now."
- On April 20, novelist Mun-Yeol Lee evaluated the 'Ahn Cheol-Soo phenomenon', which emerged as a major variable in the presidential election, as 'Creating an avatar of the press' in an interview with a media company following the publication of the novel 《The Great King, Let Go》 dealing with Kim Yu-shin. depreciated
On September 20, Kim Jong-in, president of the Korea Development Strategy Institute, who was once called Ahn's mentor, strongly criticized Ahn in a telephone interview with a media company as "a person who completely lacks understanding of economic democratization."
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