The Korea Times reports it simply:
Pressian, a Seoul-based online news site, on Sunday reported Hwang may have ordered a subordinate to fabricate photos of nine stem cell batches from just two cell lines that were presented to Science.
Pressian said that it acquired transcripts of an interview with Kim Sun-jong, a member of Hwang’s team who is currently at the University of Pittsburgh, made by “PD Notebook,” MBC network’s investigative news program. MBC delayed the airing of the program containing the interview.
“This April Hwang made me create many pictures with two stem cell lines. It was work that should not have been done. But I was not in a position to disobey the order,” Kim said in the transcript.
Kim added he had received stem cell lines No. 2 and No. 3 from Hwang and made photos for other stem cell batches, possibly from No. 4 to No. 12.
In response, Hwang’s team argued that Kim had made these remarks after coercion by MBC.”
