Attack of the Clones
Nationalism and mobocracy are rearing their ugly heads in South Korea over the methodology of cloning and killing of embryos. From Nature calls for 'rigorous' probe into Hwang's work [link via The Lost Nomad]:

After MBC, a South Korean TV network, broadcast a documentary critical of Hwang last week, it bore the brunt of criticism for being unpatriotic and all of its advertising for the Tuesday program was dropped.

The network has also faced candlelight protests and the wrath of the all-powerful Netizens, that online mob that is the real power in today's South Korea. All this is not going unnoticed in the international scientific community, as this excerpt from the same article shows:

In its editorial, the London-based magazine Nature contended that, "The Korean national interest would best be served not by more flag-waving, but by the rigorous, official inquiry that has yet to be instigated into exactly what went on at Hwang's lab."

In a post entitled clones, Oranckay offers a description of these events as well as this cartoon from the 한겨레그림판, followed by Oranckay's own explanation:

It says “cloned en masse” at the top. At the clones’ feet it says “excessive patriotism.” The man making his escape is holding a camera that has the name of the MBC program “PD Sucheop” on it.

“PD Sucheop” is the program facing the wrath of the general Korean public for asking the tough questions about where Hwang got his eggs a whole year and a half after allegations first appeared in Nature magazine.

All I have to add that it is not patriotism but base nationalistic pride* that is fueling this. Uri Nara**, right or wrong!

*See Patriotism vs. nationalism.

**Literally "Our Country," this is the name Koreans generally use when speaking of Korea.