South Korea at the Forefront of Unethical Science
"A bank that will create and supply new lines of embryonic stem cells for research opened Wednesday in Seoul as part of a global partnership that will help scientists in countries such as the United States get around government restrictions on cloning:" S. Korea Opens Bank for Stem Cell Research.

South Korea's progressivist President Roh Moo-hyun hailed the establishment of the new center:

A tremendous thing is happening here... It's the politicians' role to deal properly with the controversy over life ethics so that it cannot block scientific research and progress.

Translate "deal properly" as "ignore."

Father Lee Dong-ik of the Catholic University of Korea counters with the following:

I question why there cannot be profound discussions on the issue in our country like there have been in other countries... We don't have an environment where the ethical problems (of the research) can be freely discussed.

This bank is doubly evil, as the process involves both cloning and the destruction of embryonic life. Had the bank chosen to focus on adult stem cells, it would have our full support.