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Ahn Dae-hee

South Korean politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ12605582 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ahn Dae-hee (Korean: 안대희; born March 31, 1955) is a prosecutor once nominated Prime Minister of South Korea. President Park Geun-hye nominated for the post of Prime Minister on 22 May 2014, but Ahn withdrew his nomination.

Biography

Ahn was a state prosecutor for 26 years until 2006. He was named Supreme Court justice by President Roh Moo-hyun in 2006. He joined the 2012 presidential campaign of Park Geun-hye. President Park has appointed Ahn on 22 May 2014 as Prime Minister and successor to his predecessor Jung Hong-won, but Ahn withdrew.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ahn Dae-hee” as south Korean politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 2014, 2006, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-03-31. The account is most persuasive where Dae-hee, South and Korean can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as south Korean politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12605582. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955, 2014, 2006 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ahn Dae-hee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.