Scientist behind global stem cell scandal stripped of top honor after 22 years

Hwang Woo-suk was once celebrated as the face of South Korea’s scientific ambitions.

Twenty-two years later, the government has stripped the disgraced stem cell researcher of its highest science honor.

President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday approved the revocation of Hwang’s Top Science and Technology Award, finalizing a process that had been delayed for years by a legal dispute over procedural flaws, the government said Wednesday.

The Ministry of Science and ICT asked the Ministry of the Interior a ...