The National Bio Committee directly under the President, which was scheduled to be launched this month, has been disrupted by President Suk-Yeol Yoon’s declaration of emergency martial law.

As the National Assembly is in the early stages of voting on an impeachment bill against President Suk-Yeol Yoon, who was supposed to chair the committee, the establishment of the National Pharmaceutical and Biotech Control Tower is at risk of being canceled. 

According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare on the 10th, the first meeting of the National Bio Committee, originally scheduled for sometime this month, has been postponed indefinitely.

The MOHW explained that it has not