SEOUL: A scandal-hit law professor bowed out of the running to become South Korea’s justice minister over his controversial views on women and admissions of drink driving and other transgressions.
Ahn Kyong-hwan withdrew his candidacy in the wake of a public outcry centred on his 2016 book What is Man? and past behaviour, including the revelation that he had once forged a marriage registration with an ex-girlfriend without her knowledge.
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