Dec 15th, 2005 · After weeks of controversy, the results of groundbreaking experiments that purported to show how to make stem-cell lines from individual patients using cloning techniques will be retracted. A senior author of the paper, a top South Korean researcher, admits that some of the results were faked.
Nov 24th, 2005 · A South Korean stem-cell scientist accused of ethics violations apologizes to the public and resigns. He acknowledged that two scientists working for him voluntarily donated their own eggs for his stem-cell research.
Nov 22nd, 2005 · Possible ethical lapses in the way South Korean researchers obtained women's eggs for their experiments threaten to derail international collaborations in stem cell research. Last year, Korean scientists stunned the world by announcing that they'd cloned a human embryo -- a feat only the Koreans have managed.
Mar 25th, 2005 · 'Old Boy' March 25, 2005 · Film critic David Edelstein reviews Old Boy, a South Korean film that won the Grand Jury Prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival.
Feb 21st, 2005 · A company in Ann Arbor, Mich., is crying foul. The South Korean government has given an award to a South Korean company for developing a new technology. But the Michigan company says the advances were actually made by its inventors.