With Leclaza as a foothold, the next couple of years will be crucial for Yuhan’s ambition to become a top 50 global pharma firm. R&D president Yeul Hong Kim shares how he intends to shape the leading Korean company's efforts to compete with its global rivals.

Scrip takes a look at major R&D trends in the Korean biotech sector in the third quarter, analysing new moves at Genexine, Bridge Biotherapeutics, Oscotec and others to cope with ongoing challenges and focus resources on the most promising projects.

Korean biopharma companies and the government are making diverse efforts to collaborate and seek growth to overcome limited resources and capital, as well as a tough investment environment.

Yuanta Investment, which will launch one of two major new public/private biopharma support funds in South Korea later this year, talks about the strategy behind the initiative and the plans for diverse collaborations with pharma companies both at home and abroad.