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Hwang Woo-suk loses Korean citizenship, gains UAE's
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Hwang Woo-suk's landmark stem cell papers found to be fabricated
In December 2005, a Seoul National University inquiry concluded that Hwang Woo-suk's celebrated human stem cell research rested on fabricated data.
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South Korea's Supreme Court upholds Hwang Woo-suk's suspended sentence
On 27 February 2014, South Korea's top court confirmed an 18-month suspended sentence for cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk over fund embezzlement and bioethics violations.
Disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk is now a UAE citizen and wants Korea back
Hwang Woo-suk lost his Korean citizenship after becoming a UAE national in April. Now the scientist behind a famous research fraud says he wants it back.