Minister of Food and Drug Safety Yu-Kyung Oh promised to reduce or ease the mandatory participation rate of domestic clinical patients from the current 10% to 5% to strengthen sovereignty over domestically produced vaccines and increase self-sufficiency.

The plan is to improve the current regulations by accepting the claims raised by domestic pharmaceutical companies that seek to develop domestic vaccines and agreeing with the National Assembly's suggestion to speed up development by lowering the domestic reference rate to reinforce actual vaccine self-sufficiency.

On the 25th, Yu-Kyung Oh, Minister of Food and Drug Safety, responded as follows to an on-site inquiry made by Rep. Ki-Youn