Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance Choo Kyung-ho announced that he would soon announce a plan to foster the bio-industry, saying he would foster the second semiconductor for biopharmaceuticals. On the 24th, Deputy Prime Minister Choo visited the Aprogen plant in Osong to inspect the biopharmaceutical production site and said this in a meeting with industry officials.

Deputy Prime Minister Choo explained in his remarks at the meeting that followed the on-site inspection of the production facilities that "the bio-industry is emerging as a high-tech industry that promotes the creation of new technologies and industries as it is converged with digital." He said, "It is becoming more imp