Financially battered drug companies successfully survived.

During the IMF financial crisis in 1997 several domestic drug corporations were drowned into a deep swamp including a court control or a workout establishment but gradually restoring their competence now almost to quite a normal standing.

Successful companies included Il Dong, Dongshin, Keunwha, Shinpoong, Samsung Pharm., Sang-A and Hanil. Some companies struggled to survive themselves whil...