News About: Pharm. Affairs
Inspection against shops-inside-pharmacies intensified.
By taking occasions that the Functional Health Food Act takes effects from Aug. this year, thus, triggering ever growing trend of so called shops-inside-pharmacies business (a general consumer product business inside ...
Pharmacy to resist ban on free use of disposable bags.
The Ministry of Environment prohibited pharmacies to use any free disposable large bags, for which the pharmacy communities expressed their harsh complaints.
Over the government's ban on the disposable envelope an...
"Me Alone Pharmacy" declined by 16% points after medical reforms.
After the medical and pharmacy role separation program, so called "Me Alone Pharmacy" where only one man runs its store, has been decreased according to a survey conducted by the Health Science Institute of Injae Univ...
US-based large pharmacy chain targeting domestic pharmaceutical market
Recently, the U.S.-based Missouri's Representative to South Korea said that Medicine Shop International, a retailer pharmacy franchise firm, will enter the domestic pharmacy market, saying that Missouri is one of the ...
Concerns arise over super-slim pharmacies
With the increasing number of small-sized or container pharmacies with one or two pyung (1 pyung: 3.3 square meters) near at hospitals, there are mounting concerns that these pharmacies are deepening an estrangement a...
Foreign executives satisfied with pharmacy service better than hospital: survey
Foreign business executives residing in Korea consider pharmacy service is better than hospital, the Federation of Korean Industries said recently.
In a survey of 122 foreign expatriates in Korea, titled "Life cond...
Many proprietor of pharmacy struggling with financial difficulties
With the implementation of revised National Pension Law, its presidential decree and enforce regulations from this July 1st, aiming to expand the national insurance coverage to corporations and profession work...
Non-medical/pharmacist's investment for clinic mall on the rise.
The investment of mall premises for private clinic or pharmacy uses has been understood as a doctor's or pharmacist's centered business so far, but recently its turns out to be of other general investor's interests wi...
Earlier introduction of minimum drug invoice system are preferred
In the prevailing irregular drug transaction order at community pharmacy, a growing number of proprietors of pharmacy are concerned about their pharmacy management due to different invoice prices of drug which are tac...
Large scale workshop seeking resolution of key pharmacy issues.
The Seoul City Pharmaceutical Association plans a large scale workshop purported to explore a resolution of the current pharmacist's issues from July 5 to 6 at Seoul Educational Culture Center.
In the workshop the...
