Ahn Sang-yeong (; November 18, 1938 February 4, 2004) was the 25th, 31st, and 32nd

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Busan Busan (), officially Busan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's second list of cities in South Korea by population, most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million as of 2024. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economi ...

, South Korea. Ahn was educated at Busan High School, and graduated from

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with a degree in

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in 1963. Ahn was implicated in a bribery scandal involving the Jinheung

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, and killed himself on February 4, 2004.

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