This is the scientific scandal that rocked an entire country. Korea's King of Cloning. Part 1 of 2.

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Poker Table 3D model is a Royalty Free Asset licensed from tdubic on Freed3D.
State of the Union Clip from the AP Archive. Bush Stem Cell address from CSPAN.
All other footage from PD Notebook episodes “The Myth of Hwang Woo Suk”, “The Rise and fall of the cloning King, Dr. Hwang”, “The Egg Donor Issue”.
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Familiar Things - The Whole Other
Alliance – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Brave New World – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Sonic – Lish Grooves
Boards – Francis Preve
Slice of Paradise – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Arcadia – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Absolutely Nothing – Jeremy Blake
MydNyte – Noir Et Blanc
Dark Matter – Chasms
The Showdown – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Stranger Danger – Francis Preve
Blue Macaw – Quincas Moirera
Lucid Dream – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Melt – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Dangerous – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Last Stop – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Control Sample - Skyra
Fortress Europe – Dan Bodan

Sources:
COMPETING “ORIGINARY” TECHNOLOGIES: HUMAN CLONING, EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS AND BUDDHISM IN SOUTH KOREA AND BEYOND
Explaining the Hwang Scandal: National Scientific Culture and Its Global Relevance
Modest Witnessing and Managing the Boundaries between Science and the Media: A Case Study of Breakthrough and Scandal
How Could a Scientist Become a National Celebrity? Nationalism and Hwang Woo-Suk Scandal
Making matters of fraud: Sociomaterial technology in the case of Hwang and Schatten
Comparing Public Discourses in Stem Cell Policy Debates
The Discourse of National Population Crisis and Its Framing of Bioethical Issues in Contemporary South Korea
Fraudulent Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in South Korea: Lessons Learned
Questioning Hype, Rescuing Hope? The Hwang stem cells scandal and the reassertion of hopeful horizons:
How Young Korean Researchers Helped Unearth a Scandal – Science Magazine
Science, patriotism and discourses of nation and culture: reflections on the South Korean stem cell breakthroughs and scandals
The Challenges of Governing Biotechnology in Korea
The Hwang Woo-Suk Scandal Hasn’t Ended
The Hwang Scandal That “Shook the World of Science”
Evidence of a Pluripotent Human Embryonic Stem Cell Line Derived from a Cloned Blastocyst (2004 paper)
Patient-Specific Embryonic Stem Cells Derived from Human SCNT Blastocysts (2005 paper)
Dogs cloned from adult somatic cells (Nature)
Human embryonic stem cells: Derivation, culture, and differentiation: A review
Science, Technology, and the Imaginaries of Development in South Korea
Rethinking Women and Their Bodies in the Age of Biotechnology: Feminist Commentaries on the Hwang Affair
Protecting Egg Donors and Human Embryos—The Failure of the South Korean Bioethics and Biosafety Act
The Ethical and Regulatory Problems in the Stem Cell Scandal
Nature’s Comprehensive Timeline of the Hwang Scandal: https://www.nature.com/news/2005/0512...

0:00 The Idea
9:34 The Crisis
15:14 The Celebrity
24:34 The King
31:50 The Theory
42:20 The American
53:51 The Loophole