January 6, 2006

A Nation's Pride Turns to Shame

By ALAN BRENDER

As a scientific fraud is revealed to the world, no country has been more shocked than South Korea, the homeland of the apparent perpetrator

Woo Suk Hwang, the South Korean stem-cell researcher at Seoul National University who reportedly cloned the first human stem cell and the first dog, was flying high only two months ago, both in the international arena of science and as an honored citizen of his own country.

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