How to catch a criminal cloner

Weird how your entire career can fall apart thanks to one simple question: "Where did you get those eggs?" Korea's King of Cloning. Part 2 of 2.

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Poker Table 3D model is a Royalty Free Asset licensed from tdubic on Freed3D.
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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Music from Youtube Audio Library and Epidemic Sound (in order of appearance):
Headlights in the Fog - @Whitebat Audio
Blacksmith – Godmode
Bonos – Coyote Hearing
Fortress Europe – Dan Bodan
Beyond the Lows – The Whole Other
Ether Oar – The Whole Other
Sydney’s Skyline – ALBIS
Seductress – Francis Preve
Backdoors – Skrya
Hiding DNA – Skrya
19th Floor – Bobby Richards
Bio – Wendel Scherer
Cloak – Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Generations Away – Unicorn Heads
The Mole – Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
To Pass Time – Godmode
Traversing – Godmode
Night Dweller - @Whitebat Audio
Edge of Tomorrow - @Whitebat Audio
Last Echoes – Nylonia
1908 Vol. II – REPULSIVE
Insular – Nylonia
Space Coast – Topher Mohr and Alex Elana
Stranger Danger – Francis Preve
Stars and Constellations – Sarah, The Illstrumentalist

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

0:00 The Family
4:50 The Sacrifice
15:08 The Line
24:12 The Hunt
32:16 The Bombshell
39:48 The Outrage
48:49 The Encore
55:47 The Consequences
1:02:40 The End

[skeletonizer]

Saying "sorry I can't verify anything from this paper that my name is on because of a time difference" is actually so funny

[gabriels]

The dog actually being a real clone is the funniest part of this whole thing, shoutout that dog

[blerst]

As a Korean, I would like to mention that public perception of Hwang has drastically changed during the last two decades. He's now seen as a criminal and a national embarrassment. His story is always mentioned in schools and universities as a prime example of what NOT to do as a scientist. It's also used as a constant reminder that with the right friends, one can get away with almost anything.

[jovindsouza]

Props to Snuppy the dog for surviving this mess and being (possibly) the only genuine clone in a sea of fakes.

[Vooman]

Producer's Note: "Do you have any DNA we can test?"
Hwang: "I forgor 💀"

[ruthiewitter]

Park Eul Soon’s diary entry is *heartbreaking*. A young, hardworking scientist, with a heart to help humans fight disease and heal the world, coerced and manipulated, and hurt. I dearly hope she’s doing okay now. God bless her. She did her best. I hope she’s okay.

[kormagogthedestroyer]

I just realized that the cards actually represent the field of each person

Hearts is scientists
Spades is government
Diamonds is the media
Clubs is everyone else
And the higher cards mean more power

I can’t imagine how much work went into making just that graphic

[MusicaX]

The money laundering portion was such an OUT OF NORWHERE piece of information. "Buddy what are you doing" is 100% my response.

[Taidehaamu]

I'm sure someone has already pointed it out but I need to say this for my own sanity. There is no such thing as a fancy Peugeot. Peugeot doesn't make ultra luxury super cars for rich people, they mostly make small cost effective hatchbacks. Hwang Woo-suk was admonishing his employee not for driving a Lamborghini but for driving something that in Europe is considered less fancy than a VW.

I imagine the real reason Hwang Woo-suk was so angry was because the car wasn't Korean.

[musturdle_]

I now understand why Hwang was depicted as the “King of Hearts”. That’s exactly what he was in the Korean public eye, and he used that power to his own advantage. Love the way this is formed as a card game, and it’s one hell of a full house

[Xerberos]

i'm still impressed at Hwang's ability to navigate the social landscape of the scandal. it's amazing just how much he got away with through networking and people's skills.

[hopdosp]

The minute your boss tries to imply your job is a "family" you should start submitting applications elsewhere. Literally one of biggest red flags the company is irrecoverably toxic

[CraftyMasterman]

I love how the story of this ends up working like a reverse murder mystery. We already know the villain is bad we just have to work backwards and find all the breadcrumbs.

[THCk]

Moral of the story: If you're doing fraud make sure you include and support as many government officials as you can.

[purplehaze]

I find it interesting how he argued that cloning research was completely okay when looked at through the lens of Buddhism, only to violate a frankly _obscene_ number of Buddhist principles behind closed doors.

[euclideanspace]

The fact that they masked an IVF assistance website using infertile couples to harvest eggs sent chills down my spine. That's just horrific, I cannot describe how I feel in words.

[Official_Kezzie]

I absolutely love these multi-hour marathons of scientific scandals. There is so much to learn, and so much juicy drama within the community that isn’t too different from stuff you’d see in the music or gaming industry.

[kyleyuen]

I salute that person who posted the real photos. 'The show must go on'. They finally pushed through fear and were able to save the entire opposition and enforce it and swing everything in favour against Hwang

[MurderousPingu]

It is actually amazing that despite everything, this guy actually is responsible for the first cloning of a dog, which was a genuinely impressive achievement. He reached the sky, and in going for the stars, he failed spectacularly

[reduck]

I must say the part where an anonymous person said "The show must go on" was the best part of the whole thing