Pharmaceutical companies’ average operating profit edge down

Domestic drug firms in Korea saw their average operating profit edge down last year from a year earlier, according to Yakup.com, a pharmaceutical information company.

The operating profits of 52 pharmaceutical companies listed on the Seoul stock market posted 8.5 percent last year, a 2.7 percent decline from 11.1 percent in 2010 because of the government’s incessant crackdown on illegal reba...