Netflix documentary King of Clones tells the story of the rise and fall of Korean scientist Dr. Hwang Woo-suk. What's the real story behind the film?
Ethics often play catch-up with science. Netflix's latest documentary film on the rise and fall of Dr. Hwang Woo-suk, who went on to become a national hero for Korea. However, after rising from obscurity, he then became a disgrace to the scientific community. The documentary captures a story that teases the fault lines between scientific leaps and ethical transgressions.
Despite the wide success that Hwang had achieved through his efforts in the field of cloning, there was a concerning trend in his work — the lack of published research backing his claims. Hwang sent shock waves throughout the scientific community when he decided to publish a paper in a scientific journal, Science, detailing the process of creating human embryos by cloning. The paper was later backed by another paper in 2005 claiming that Dr.
How Did Hwang Woo-suk Fall From Being a National Hero? The first pushback for Hwang came when his long-time collaborator Dr. Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh decided to end his association with the famed Korean scientist in November 2004 as a result of the questionable acquisition of eggs. Things became worse for Hwang when one of his co-authors on the 2005 paper, Sun Il Roh, gave a press conference claiming that the 20 eggs used for the research were bought.
On January 12, 2006, Hwang gave a public apology accepting the mistakes, although he continued to maintain that he had the necessary technology at his disposal to create the human clones. As a consequence of his actions, Hwang was charged with fraud, embezzlement, and bioethics law violation. He was stripped of his license to conduct embryonic stem-cell research. In April 2006, the two women who donated eggs for human embryo cloning filed a lawsuit seeking $32 million won in compensation.
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