No one galvanized South Korea’s national pride as he did, and no scandal in recent years unsettled the country as much as his.
Hwang Woo-suk became an international sensation a decade ago when he claimed to have cloned a human embryo and produced a stem-cell line from it for the first time in history.
“I created an illusion and made it look as if it were real,” Dr. Hwang said recently in one of the few interviews he has given since investigators concluded he and his research team had perpetrated one of the biggest scientific frauds in modern history. “I was drunk in the bubble I created.”
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