Drug sales will grow 12.3% this year

Influenced by the sustained demand of high-priced drugs and more activated ethical-market, the growth rate of drug sales in 2002 is likely to reach 12.3 percent, surpassing the average annual rate of 10.9 percent for the past ten years.

In its short-term outlook for the domestic pharmaceutical industry, Daeshin Economic Institute said that the combined turnover of leading Korean pharmaceutic...