Only 5 blockbusters among 26 domestically developed new drugs

Among domestically developed new drugs which were launched after 1999, there are only 5 blockbuster-level pharmaceutical products exceeding KRW 10 billion annual actual outputs, but the Boryung Pharm’s hypertension treatment, ‘Kanarb Tab,’ has been recognized as the biggest hit product recording more than 40 billion actual output in 2014.

However, as actual outputs of 4 new drugs including the...