Statement of Korean Civil Society Organizations on Unethical Experiments performed by the South Korean Stem Cell Scientists Team led by Prof. Woo Suk Hwang - Prof. Woo Suk Hwang should tell the truth about his team’s experiments - The Presidential Assistant on Information and Science Ki Young Park must carry responsibility Sung-il Roh, h...
2005/11/23 00:00 2005/11/23 00:00
A court has found young men not guilty for conscientious objection to military conscription. Judge Yi Jeong Ryeol of the Seoul Southern District Court found three Jehovah's Witnesses not guilty of violating laws on military conscription, judging that "the decision to refuse military service was made entirely on the basis of conscience, and when th...
2004/05/22 00:00 2004/05/22 00:00
In July 2000, the Ministry of Information and Communication(MIC) of Korea pronounced an act called 'Communication Order Act', which has introduced the PICS(Platform for Internet Content Selection) under the broad framework of Internet Content Rating System. This act manifestly shows the government's intent to control the world of WWW: the authorities conc...
2001/12/05 00:00 2001/12/05 00:00
1. Past as 'Present' The whole country got very annoyed at Japan's textbook distortion recently. While an atmosphere is dominant that censures the attitude of Japan for having no self-examination of her Fascist past, voices that scold the lukewarm response of the Korean Government is high-pitched. The reasons why problems like the textbook distorti...
2001/10/31 00:00 2001/10/31 00:00
Four outside experts gathered together on August 1 to review the negative impacts of the controversial human genome project. The Center for Democracy in Science and Technology at the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) held a hearing on the expected social and ethical problems of the use of genetic information. This hearing was geared t...
2001/09/15 00:00 2001/09/15 00:00
The extremely polarized debate on the framework of the Bioethics bill is heated up again between civil groups' alliance and other major forces including National Assembly members as the Korean Bioethics Advisory Commission unveiled the framework of the Bioethics bill which is scheduled to be handed over to Ministry of Science and Technology in this month....
2001/07/21 00:00 2001/07/21 00:00
As the Human Genome Project has almost been completed, the Council for Democracy in Science & Technology (CDST), a action body of PSPD, petitioned Korean government to enact a law for personal genetic code protection on June 7, 2001 with concerns about the possibility of persons being discriminated against on the basis of genes. The CDST collected 1,870 s...
2001/07/21 00:00 2001/07/21 00:00