Matthew Park (attorney)
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Matthew Park, born in 1970, is a second generation Korean-American administrative attorney residing in Washington, D.C..
In 2006, Park gained national attention in Korea when he exposed the Korean government and the Seoul National University’s error in not protecting Prof. Hwang Woo Suk’s patent rights. Park further claimed the Professor Gerald Shatten of the Pittsburg University stole Hwang’s patent rights in stem cell research. Shatten and Hwang had been co-researchers. However, Shatten included Hwang’s nuclear transfer method into his own patent application without informing Hwang.
Park’s claim received even more spotlight when Moon Hyung Ryel PD (program director) of the Korea Broadcasting Service interviewed Park and tried unsuccessfully to air the program. Moon claimed that due to government censorship, he was not able to air his program and this received wide media coverage and fueled the imagination of the Korean public.
In August of 2006, Park was involved in a suspicious car accident. His friend, Hwan Kim died at the scene of the accident and Park didn’t fare much better. Park lost both of this legs and barely escaped death in what many believe was a setup to assassinate him.
