Industry produced 9,100 billion won of drugs in 2002.

Thank to the medical and pharmacy role separation program, the pharmaceutical production shows an ongoing rise at 9,196,400 million won in 2002 by 661 companies, which was about 8.58% up from the previous year of 8,469,700 million won.

The production growth once plunged to 4.16% in 1999 as a result of the IMF economic crisis, showed an ever rising trend thereafter at 7.33% in 2001 and 8.58% ...