You already have written important parts of your final project. The next step toward your final paper will again require some basic research, but this time you'll be looking for information about the political and economic worlds that gave Hwang Woo Suk so much support within South Korea. Here are some guiding questions:

1. Why did South Korea think that stem cell research was an important economic opportunity?
   • Who were/are South Korea's other competitors in the stem cell field?
     
     
   • Why did South Korea feel it had an advantage over these competitors?
     
     
   • What economic problems did/does South Korea face that stem cell research might help solve?
   
   
2. With what South Korean political forces did Hwang Woo Suk align himself?
   • What kind of alliances did he have with South Korean politicians?
     
     
   • What connection did Hwang Woo Suk have with popular politics? How did this connection affect his relation with South Korea's government?
     
     
   • How was he rewarded by the South Korean government for his connection to the feelings of the people?
     
   
   
3. Using what you have learned about peer review, how did Hwang Woo Suk use his political connections and the economic needs of South Korea to strengthen his credibility with the world of scientific research?
   
   

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   This assignment (like the preceding one) will become a section of your final, term paper. Remember, the earlier assignments build the major pieces for your final project.
   
   
   1. Pre-writing task: Identify at least two scholarly sources about South Korea's social, economic, political, and/or scientific forces. Write an annotated, bibliographic entry for one of these sources. Use Purdue's description of Annotated Bibliographies to write your entry. Post your entry to the class list serve. These postings become the shared property of everyone in class.
      DUE: July 15
      Points: 50
      
      
   2. Note the following requirements for the paper:
      • The paper must be formatted as described at The Purdue OWL. Note the precise requirements for margins, spacing, headers, font size, etc.
        
        
      • Minimum 600 un-wordy words.
        
        
      • Use of peer reviewed articles accessed through the FLITE Library.
        
        
      Due: July 15
      Points: 100