The market for outpatient prescription drugs was the largest ever. This year, the prescription market has grown significantly due to the expansion of prescriptions such as cold medicine due to the rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 confirmed patients. The size of Expectant prescriptions used to relieve COVID-19 symptoms has more than doubled in a year.

According to UBIST, a pharmaceutical research institute, on the 25th, the total amount of outpatient prescriptions in the third quarter was 4.3011 trillion won, up 5.4% from the same period last year. The third-quarter prescription amount is the largest ever. It easily surpassed the previous new record of 4.22 trillion won recorded in the fourth quarte