[GeorgeKant]

Hwang's problem is debunked by local scientists and journalists. S. Korea did not cover it up, unlike Chinese regimes tend to do.

Several of the lower ranked scientists who criticised Hwang initially were FIRED or reprimanded by the NATIONAL university. South Koreans were still rabidly defending Hwang until Hwang's colleagues in the United States openly expressed their doubts of his work.

My point was that faking crap is hardly unique to China, as much as you would not like to admit it. If you were a Korean who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, you wouldn't have such a big chip on your shoulder, and you would have hesitated before laughing at China's current disgrace. You would also know that during the 1970s Korean chaebols like Samsung copied everything there was to copy from Japanese companies, and Korean mom-and-pop factories in the Chollas made everything from fake antibiotics to fake Japanese rice cookers.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Well the cover-up did not succeed in Hwang's case not because of investigations from outside but from inside.

It was not copying that mattered. It was dangerous and unsafe products. And gull to export them.

Don't export them. It is China who has a huge chip on their shoulder. They know they are pushing (unsafe) craps to the world, and now turn around and say they are blamed merely for "underperformance." It is not just underperformance. If it were, things would not have been this controversial. Japanese and S. Korean products all underperformed, and were called junks in the past. But they are just junks. They did not have deadly chemicals in them, or unsafe enough to wound or kill consumers.

If Chinese do not mind consuming such unsafe and deadly products, that is their business. I do not understand why they are exporting them overseas in such a massive quantity.

Neither Japanese nor S. Koreans did that. Actually back in the past, quality control for export items was markedly stringent than those for domestic consumption.

You do no want to lose faith to the world. Then do more stringent quality control on export items. Voluntarily ban items which can create really bad publicity.

Finally, don't think that past S. Koreans are on the same league as current Chinese on this matter. It is two or more order of magnitude higher for Chinese.