24 Quotes by Hwang Suk

There is no doubt that we produced 11 patient-specific stem cells and possess the core technology to create them again.

We were crazy, crazy about our work. But I was blinded. All I could see was whether I could make Korea stand in the center of the world through this research.

I apologize to the people for creating an unspeakable shock and disappointment. I step down as professor of Seoul National University.

I apologize for creating this uproar both in and out of Korea. The fact remains that our research team was successful in creating stem cells from patients' skin cells. Still, there were mistakes made, human errors, in taking photographs and in the preservation of the stem cells.

I feel so miserable it is difficult even to say sorry. I will be repenting for this for the rest of my life.

I feel so crushed and humiliated that I hardly have the energy to say I am sorry. I seek your forgiveness.

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

I respectfully ask legal authorities to launch an investigation as soon as possible. I am desperate to find out who switched the samples for what motive and how.

Our research team made patient-specific embryonic stem cells and we have the technology to produce them.