The Korean press and Hwang's fraud

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 653-669

  Park, Jaeyung ^a   Jeon, Hyoungjoon ^b   Logan, Robert A ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Dankook University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

News judgment; Public understanding of science; Science journalism; Scientific fraud; South Korea; Woo Suk Hwang

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350676964     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: 13616609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662508096779     Document Type: Article

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