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Park Sun-dong named vice chairman of KRPIA
The Korean-based Pharmaceutical Industry Association said on February that it appointed Park Sun-dong, president of BMS Korea, as its new vice chairman.
Park will replace Kim Chin-ho to serve as the KRPIA's ninth v...
Foreigner buying Keunwha stocks
Foreign investors are resuming buying stocks in Keunwha Pharm, mainly due to higher ownership of major shareholders, stock analysts said.
Foreign investors increased their holding in Keunwha by 3.46 percent between...
HIRAS opens web site over 106,861 finished drugs
The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service said on February 9 that it has launched a website to introduce the general product information of 106,861 finished medicines per packaging unit, which are distributed...
Drug ads for alopecia and pain killer to grow sharply
Amid the rapid population aging and falling birthrates, the number of drug advisements for alopecia and analgesics is expected to increase, according to the Drug Ads Deliberation Committee under the Korea Pharmaceutic...
Health watchdog to restrict use of similar tradename over renewal product
The Korea Food and Drug Administration says it will not allow drugmakers to use any brand name by adding letter(s), word(s) or figure(s) to the already licensed medicine, citing a case that it rejected the use of Huon...
Lawmaker pushing legislation to impose more strict regulation of drug warehouse area
A ruling lawmaker plans to submit a bill aimed at determining the minimum drug warehouse area for wholesalers, according to sources on February 6.
The bill, drafted by Rep. Won Hee-mok, a first-time lawmaker with t...
Choong-wae joins 100-10 club
Backed by the popularity of 10 medicines achieving more than 10 billion won in sales last year, Choong-wae Pharm has joined the 100-10 club.
The 10 items include three amino acid infusions, itopride, pitavastatin, ...
Moon named head of Bayer Schering Korea over specialty medicine business unit
Moon Hee-suk, former head of BMS Korea, was named general manager of special therapeutics unit for Bayer Schering Korea.
Moon will be responsible for taking charge of marketing Bayer Schering’s new medicines, such ...
Korea to work with Canada on biotechnology projects
Kyunggi Province said that it has agreed with the Canada LifeSciences British Columbia (LSBC) to work together in wide-ranging areas of biotechnology.
The province officials said that that it will sign a memorandum...
Dong-A breaks W700 billion barrier in sales
Dong-A Pharm reported on February 5 that it earned 43.2 billion won on sales of 702.3 billion won last year, up 10.4 percent in 2007.
Dong-A’s operating profit increased 12.8 percent from a year ago to 81.7 billion...
