Developing Story: Korean Cloning Backlash

December 21, 2005

The New York Times is reporting that the investigative television news program in South Korea that played no small part in bringing the cloning scandal to light has been cancelled. It appears to be a combination of backlash against the undoing of a national hero and backlash against unethical journalistic techniques.

Mr. Choi is in the journalistic doghouse partly for tearing down a national icon, a charismatic, handsome scientist who was the modern, successful face that South Koreans yearned to show the world.

But it is also partly because he allowed South Korea’s ultracompetitive journalism world to spur him to use techniques that tarnished his work.

It just keeps getting more interesting. Stay tuned.