[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Celltrion has successfully expanded its coverage by signing a formulary listing contract for its autoimmune disease treatment drug 'Steqeyma' (ingredient name: ustekinumab) with one of the top five prescription drug benefit managers (PBM) in the United States. As Celltrion secures the private insurance area under the jurisdiction of the PBM through this contract, Stekima is scheduled to receive a refund starting July 1. This contract is the second achievement that Celltrion has made with a large US PBM for the listing of Stekima in the formulary. Prior to thi
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Daewon Pharmaceutical, once the pride of domestic new drugs, has lost four consecutive patent lawsuits for ‘Pelubi’ from the first trial to the Supreme Court, exposing its management incompetence and structural risks at once. In recent years, Daewon Pharmaceutical has been criticized as a typical ‘bad company’ due to repeated investigations by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the National Tax Service, as well as repeated defeats in court. ◆ Four consecutive patent lawsuit losses… The fall of the Pelubi myth Daewon Pharmaceutical’s domestic new drug ‘P
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] The symbol of Korean manufacturing: Hyundai and Kia Motors factories. The workers there are called “new production workers” with hundreds of millions of won in annual salaries, but behind the splendid facade, there are industrial accidents, occupational diseases, and the tears of subcontracted workers. Even more shocking is the tyranny of Hyundai and Kia Motors, which evades all responsibility with their powerful power and capital. Over the past five years, more than 2,061 people were injured, and 28 people lost their lives… “Passing responsibility to subcont
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Another worker death accident has occurred at Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors plants. Following the accident at Kia's Gwangju plant on May 16 in which a worker in his 40s was caught in a machine transporting a finished vehicle and died, the two companies' plants have been experiencing a series of serious accidents in recent years, including entrapment, falls, and suffocation. Although it is a job that boasts an annual salary in the hundreds of millions, to the point that it is called a 'new production job,' it is pointed out that backward and repetitive