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This article addresses the ethical and social dilemmas that advances in genetic engineering and human cloning technology will bring. It weighs the benefits and risks of the technology, warns of the negative effects of human cloning, and emphasizes the need for regulation and oversight.   In 1997, Ian Wilmut and his colleagues announced that they had successfully cloned a sheep named Dolly...

We explore the social implications of advances in genetic engineering, analyze the ethical issues and discrimination potential of preimplantation genetic diagnostic technologies, and discuss how social prejudice is more of a root cause of discrimination than technology.   No human being is perfect. All human beings inherit a variety of traits at birth through our genetic traits called DNA...

In the information age, misinformation spreads and pseudoscience is often mistaken for science. We’ll explain what pseudoscience is, what the problem is, and why we need to recognize and eliminate it.   We live in the information age. There is an endless amount of information available on the internet, and everyone has access to it. However, the sheer volume of information can be both...

Bioenergy is gaining traction as an alternative to fossil fuels, but its production process still causes environmental problems and food resource shortages. We need to find a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way.   Modern industrial civilization has its roots in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. One of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution was the use of...

Gene editing has the potential to benefit humanity in many areas, including curing diseases, producing high-value crops and livestock, and eradicating pests. However, there are also ethical issues and the risk of ecosystem change that need to be carefully discussed and regulated.   With the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, all the sequences of the human genome have been...

The movie “Gattaca” discusses the ethical issues of genetic manipulation and the efficiency of customized humans, and explains the advancement of gene therapy technology and the social and ethical controversies it has caused.   The movie “Kataka” depicts a world in the future where technological advances have divided people into two groups: those born naturally (in...

South Korea’s THAAD deployment is not appropriate given its geographical and technological inadequacies, diplomatic issues with its neighbors, and defense sovereignty concerns. Instead, other defense systems should be considered.   Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is a “terminal high-altitude area defense system” that would directly shoot down incoming missiles...

The question of the origin of the universe and the birth of life has long been of interest to mankind. Evolution and creationism are the two main explanations for this problem. Evolutionary theory argues that species change through natural selection and genetic variation, while creationism explains that an intelligent designer created the universe and life. Both theories use different rationales...

The movie Gattaca depicts a futuristic society that uses genetic manipulation to create perfect humans and addresses the discrimination between natural-born and customized humans. It raises ethical issues and social imbalances, emphasizing the need for a cautious approach to genetic modification.   ‘Gattaca’ is a movie about the idea of controlling the fate of a child through...

Addresses the ethical issues raised by advances in genetic engineering. It discusses issues of personal genetic privacy, the ethical limits of gene therapy, and human cloning, emphasizing the need for public discussion and guidelines.   In April 1953, biologists James Watson and Francis Crick unraveled the structure of DNA. This was a great discovery that marked the beginning of genetic...