Hong Joon-pyo and Pig Stimulant: "Which S Korean Man Doesn't Have a Story Like That?"

Just about every South Korean probably knows by now the story of the pig stimulant, even those who haven’t been following the South Korean presidential election. It’s the story of the Liberty Korea Party candidate Hong Joon-pyo’s youth, which first appeared in his 2005 memoir as a ‘oh, here’s a funny and embarrassing thing I did when I was eighteen and stupid’ episode. Back in the news now, the story is doing considerable damage to Hong’s already unpopular presidential campaign. In a chapter ti