With the 20th presidential election day just 20 days away, candidates from each party completed submitting their teenage pledges with the registration of candidates for the National Selection Commission on the 13th. The main keyword for the health care pledge of Democratic Party of Korea Lee Jae-myung, the power of the people Yoon Seok-yeol, Ahn Cheol Soo of the People's Party, and Sim Sang Jung of the Justice Party is "overcoming COVID-19."

Lee Jae-myung promised to secure sovereignty in domestic development vaccines and treatments and establish a public production system for essential medicines based on the strengthening of the all-out response system to the spread of COVID-19 variants such as Omicron