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Cold, Dark or Room Temperature: What Korean Licences Require of Vitamin, Glutathione and Placenta Injections
Every Korean drug licence says how the product should be kept, in a single line of the licence record. For...
Behind the Licence Holder: The Plants That Make Korea's Glutathione, Vitamin and Placenta Injectables
A Korean drug licence names the company responsible for a product. It does not always name the company that makes...
The Nine-Digit Code Inside a Korean Medicine's Barcode
Korean medicine paperwork sometimes carries a nine-digit number that is not a licence number, not a lot number and not...
A Buyer's Glossary of Korea's Drug and Device Registers
Korean drug and device records are written in a compact administrative vocabulary, and a handful of words carry most of...
SOSUM Filler: What It Is and How to Source It Authentically
The name on a SOSUM box is JSBIO's. The name on SOSUM's Korean licence is not. Korea's medical device register...
Question of the Week: Is There a Cheaper Alternative to Hyaron?
This week's question came from a reader looking for "a cheaper alternative to Hyaron, obviously sterile." We are not going...
MELSMON: What It Is and How to Source It Authentically
MELSMON is the oldest placenta extract injection on the Korean drug register, filed in May 2003. Twenty-three more have been...
LIZTOX vs NABOTA: Two Korean Toxins, Read Filing by Filing
LIZTOX and NABOTA are both Korean botulinum toxin type A products, both refrigerated powders in a single vial, and both...
CINDELLA Injection: What It Is and How to Source It Authentically
CINDELLA is a thioctic acid injection, and the Korean drug register shows it is not a one-off formula. Daehan New...
Toxin Licences and Filler Licences: The Korean Companies That Hold Both
Botulinum toxins and dermal fillers are regulated in Korea as different kinds of product, in different registers. Toxins are licensed...
A Korean Drug Licence Is Not Frozen at Grant: Reading Its Change Log
It is easy to think of a licence as a fixed document: granted once, filed, done. The Korean drug register...
CORETOX: What It Is and How to Source It Authentically
CORETOX is usually described by something it leaves out. Listings call it protein-free or animal-free. The Korean drug register says...