Health minister, FKCU to meet over drug pricing reform

Attention has been drawn over the proposed meeting between Health and Welfare Minister Rim Che-min and representatives from the Federation of Korean Chemical Workers Union (FKCU) on December 7.

So far, the FKCU claimed that the government should scrap the plan to slash the price of about half the drugs on the market by an average of 14 percent starting next April, in fear of possible layoffs...