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South Korean presidential candidate Hong Joon-pyo denies ‘date rape confession’ from autobiography as backlash intensifies

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Compared to Donald Trump for his outspoken rhetoric and sexist remarks, the firebrand politician wrote in a 2005 memoir about being asked ‘to obtain a stimulant’ for a roommate who had crush on girl
South Korean presidential candidate Hong Joon-pyo on Friday denied his own autobiographical confession of complicity in an attempted date rape, as voter outrage mounted. The firebrand prosecutor-turned-politician and candidate of ousted president Park Geun-hye’s conservative party has been compared to Donald Trump for his outspoken rhetoric and sexist remarks. While a first-year student at the prestigious Korea University, Hong wrote in a 2005 memoir, a roommate at his boarding house “asked us to obtain a stimulant” and then mixed it into a beer for a girl he had a crush on. The man returned to the dormitory after midnight, his face scratched and his shirt torn, according to the book. “He said the drug did not work, ” Hong wrote. “When he attempted to remove her clothes, she woke up and put up strong resistance, biting and scratching him in the face. “He asserted that if the drug been authentic, it should have worked. We said: ‘Yes, it is real. It is used to get pigs to copulate in the countryside and we’ ve been told it is also effective with humans’ .” Hong later became a criminal prosecutor and acknowledged in the book “how seriously wrong such mischief was”, calling the incident a prank.

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