New Korean President Set To Maintain Pharma Policy Support
Executive Summary
New South Korean President Moon Jae-in appears likely to continue to nurture the pharma and biotech industries by generally favorable policies such as improving the domestic drug pricing system to aid the global market entry of locally-originated novel drugs, and looks set to consider industry proposals for a new government R&D ‘control tower’.
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