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{{Short description|South Korean academic and university administrator (1941–2022)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Ahn Byong-man
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| title               = President of<br />[[Hankuk University of Foreign Studies]]
| term_start          = 1994
| term_end            = 2004
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| successor           = Park Chul
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1941|2|8|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Keijō]], [[Korea under Japanese rule|Korea, Empire of Japan]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2022|5|31|1941|2|8|df=y}}
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| alma_mater          = [[University of Florida]]<br/>[[Seoul National University]]
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{{Infobox Korean name
| title      = [[Korean name]]
| hangul     = 안병만
| hanja      = 安秉萬
| rr         = An Byeongman
| mr         = An Pyŏngman
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| color      = lavender
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'''Ahn Byong-man''' (8 February 1941 – 31 May 2022)<ref>[https://www.khan.co.kr/national/education/article/202205311649001 안병만 전 교과부 장관 별세] {{in lang|ko}}</ref> was a South Korean [[academic]], and the former President of [[Hankuk University of Foreign Studies]]. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the [[Seoul National University]] in 1964 and 1967, and went on to the [[University of Florida]] for doctoral studies, graduating in 1973. In 1975 he joined the faculty of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in [[Seoul]], South Korea.  While at this institution he served as the Dean of Student Affairs, Dean of the Graduate School, and in 1994 he was named president. He served in this capacity until 2004.
Ahn was a [[Fulbright]] Scholar-in-Residence at the [[University of Delaware]], and received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Delaware in 2004.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/mar/korea042805.html | title=Korean university president visits UD | accessdate=29 March 2011 | author=Hutchinson, Becca | year=2005 | publisher=[[University of Delaware]], USA}}</ref> He was also a visiting professor at the university. He also received a University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Award in May 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clas.ufl.edu/events/news/articles/20060322_ahn.html |title=UF Distinguished Alumnus Byong Man Ahn Lectures About North Korea March 23 |accessdate=29 March 2011 |date=22 March 2006 |publisher=[[University of Florida]], USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607095713/http://www.clas.ufl.edu/events/news/articles/20060322_ahn.html |archivedate=7 June 2011 }}</ref>
A [[Independent (politician)|non-party politician]], he served as [[Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (South Korea)|Minister for Education, Science and Technology]] in the [[Lee Myung-bak government]] from 6 August 2008 until 30 August 2010.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} During his tenure, he pushed through an ambitious reform of English-as-a-foreign-language education in South Korea to reduce the reliance on [[hagwon]] in teaching the language.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/01/117_58828.html|title=Can Ahn's English Education Overhaul Succeed?|work=[[The Korea Times]]|date=11 January 2010|accessdate=19 December 2013}}</ref> One of the first steps he took in this regard was to begin the development of a new English proficiency test modeled on Japan's [[STEP Eiken]] test, the [[National English Ability Test]], with the aim of replacing the [[TOEIC]] and [[TOEFL]] for domestic purposes such as university admissions and job candidate selection.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/12/117_36346.html|title=Korean Version of TOEFL to Debut|work=[[The Korea Times]]|date=11 December 2008|accessdate=19 December 2013}}</ref> Around the same time, he also requested the resignations of seven senior officials in the Ministry.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=050000&biid=2008121790608|title=High-ranking Education, Tax Officials Tender Resignations|work=[[The Dong-A Ilbo]]|date=17 December 2008|accessdate=19 December 2013}}</ref>
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