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Korea's Filler Register After 2020: Where the Growth Came From
Korea's register of dermal filler licences holds 1,167 filings granted since 1999. More than half of them, 660, were granted...

Buy, Price, Protocol: What Searchers Add to Korean Aesthetic Products, by Category
Most people searching for a Korean aesthetic product type its name and nothing else. Across ninety days of search data...

Korea's Toxin Register in Four Waves, 1999 to 2026
The Korean drug register holds 58 licences for botulinum toxin type A, granted to 21 companies over 27 years. Laid...

Notified, Certified, Licensed: The Three Doors Into Korea's Medical Device Register
Every medical device on the Korean market came in through one of three doors. Some were notified, which means a...

Filed Under Analgesics: What the Route of Administration Does to a Korean Licence
One molecule, hydroxocobalamin, holds forty-eight Korean drug licences. Thirty-three of them are live. Swallow it and the register calls it...

How Many Products One Company Holds: Licence Concentration Across Five Korean Categories
A brand name tells you what to order. The licence holder behind it tells you something else: how much of...

Special Functionals: What Ends Up in a Catalogue's Leftover Category
Every catalogue eventually grows a category that is defined by exclusion rather than by content. It is the shelf where...

One Product, Three Spellings: What a Single Space Does to a Product Name
A product name looks like a fixed thing. It is printed on the box, it appears on the order form,...

The Fields That Make an Order Re-identifiable Six Months Later
Six months after an order, the question is almost never what did I buy. It is: was the thing I...

Where the Public Record Stops, and Who Answers After That
A Korean licence answers some questions so completely that nothing further is needed, and others not at all. The difficulty...

MultiVita: A Name Ten Companies Share, and What That Does to a Search
Search the Korean drug register for products whose name contains 멀티비타 and twelve licences come back. They are held by...

Eight Exosome Products, Four Ways of Saying How Much
Put two exosome cartons side by side. One declares 300 billion particles. The other declares 14 billion particles per millilitre....