Hwang cut open a female dog’s abdomen and held up its uterus and oviduct, pointing out where the ovarian eggs were. He demonstrated the extraction of 10 eggs from the oviduct, and then let the monks look at the eggs through a microscope.
What’s all this about? Hwang Woo-suk, “disgraced geneticist” and “devout Buddhist”, is still in the lucrative business of cloning puppies.
Bae Ji-sook, ‘Buddhist leader visits disgraced scientist Hwang’, The Korea Herald, March 8, 2012. [link; seen at buddhistchannel.tv]
It’s hard to work Korea out; after just two generations of intensive missionizing, far more South Koreans are now Christian than Buddhist. In Asia, only the Philippines has more Christians. I just hope Hwang draws the line at cloning the people who ran “Buddhist studies” into the ground in the English-speaking world.