A Hwang Woo-suk Stamp

I found this pic at a news article in Chosun Ilbo website. The stamp was originally issued in Feb 2005 for commemorating Hwang's "success" in cultivating hESC, the news says.

Well, that's okay: what I can't understand is that this stamp, according to the news, was sold more than before once Hwang's achievements, represented by the two notorious "Science" papers, were all found out to be fabrications.

You see, even a fraud can be a hero in this country, just as long as he succeeds in advertising his trick as "an epochmaking scientific finding". It seems that Koreans don't care if his work is scientifically reliable or not: they still don't even realize scientists must not write a paper with fake data; In other words, Koreans are satisfied with such a fake science just as long as it provides them of an opportunity of earning money by what they call "source technology" (if any), and of promoting Korea as "a leading nation in bio-tech field".