Ahn Byong-man (8 February 1941 – 31 May 2022)[1] was a South Korean academic, and the former President of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
In 1975 he joined the faculty of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea.
He also received a University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Award in May 2005.
[citation needed] 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.
[4] 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.