Interview with Joong Keun Cha, President & CEO, Yuhan
Yuhan is one of the largest and fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in South Korea, with a long history in the sector. In your view, what are the main elements that…
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Upholding the founding spirit of Dr. Illhan, New ‘we shall provide the best pharmaceutical products for the nation and for the people’. Yuhan Pharmaceuticals is strongly committed to promote health through the development of excellence of pharmaceuticals preparing to become the global leader of pharmaceutical industry for the 21st century.
The Yuhan Research Institute realizes the vision for Yuhan in the future and is pressing ahead with development of market oriented of new pharmaceutical products, new drugs targeting the global market and pharmaceutical ingredients for global customers. Yuhan Research institute is doing its best to provide a platform on which Yuhan Corporation can reinvent itself as a leader of global pharmaceutical industry to upgrade the quality of human kind.
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