| Title |
: Stem Cell Governance in Korea After Hwang’s affair - Change in Governmental Fiscal Expenditure for R&D Investment - |
| Date |
: 2015. 6. |
| Journal title |
: Journal of Science and Technology Studies |
| Author |
: Kim Myungsim |
| Contact us |
: csts@khu.ac.kr |
| Abstract |
: This study analyzed the characteristics of the politics of technoscience and governance in South Korea, taking advantage of the policy changes on the stem cell research after Hwang's affair. In spite of generally accepted conventional wisdom that stem cell research had been suffering ‘crisis’ after the Hwang’s affair, South Korea succeeded in developing thefirstandthelargeststemcellproduct in the world. However, considering the fact that the stem cell research capabilities and technological competitiveness of Korea have been assessed as relatively low compared to the development performance, there is a need to extrapolate how such result could be achieved.
To answer these questions , we analyzed changes in the R&D expenditure before and after the scandal and verified the ‘crisis of stem cell research’ following the reduction of financial support from government. From the analysis of literature on the policy reports and news, we described the process of discourse changes in policy and analyzed the characteristics of the politics of technoscience and governance of stem cell research. This study emphasized that the government R&D and regulation policy play the key roles in the development of stem cell research rather than in the technological competitiveness in South Korea. Furthermore, this study argued that democratic governance still does not work under the policy conditions that technocratic decision-making of stem cell research fails to learn from the Hwang’s affairs.
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