10 pharmaceutical firms fined W20 bil. won

10 drug makers have been fined around 20 billion won for unfair business practices, the country’s antitrust regulator said on November 1. Industry sources expected some of them would face more than 10 billion won in fines.

FTC officials said that in some cases money was given to doctors and hospital staff in the form of so-called “post-market surveillance,’’ while free dinners and special tr...