KPWA to check multinational drug firms for marketing abuses

The Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Association (KPWA) said Thursday that it will beef up the monitoring of multinational drug manufacturers to keep them from abusing their marketing here amid growing distribution margin feuds between local wholesalers and foreign companies.

The move comes at a sensitive time ― just days after Bayer Korea refused to accept the KPWA’s proposal to keep the cur...