© Archyde.com. “Even the president doesn’t say anything”… Who is the most powerful authority in Korea? [임도원의 관가 뒷얘기]
Photo = News 1 “There is an authority of absolute power in our society regarding regulation. Do you know where it is?”
Kim Gwang-doo, an elder in the economics world, and director of the National Institute for the Future (Sogang University chair professor) asked this question in relation to regulatory reform in a phone call with a reporter a while ago. The answer was “technical administration”. Director Kim said, “The Korean Intellectual Property Office, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and various testing institutes have absolute power.
He said, “When the working officer and the manager say, ‘It’s dangerous to change this like this, what do you do in case of an accident?’ Neither the head of the office nor the president can say anything,” he said.
Director Kim said, “There has been a time when a pharmaceutical company went bankrupt while fighting with the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. said. Director Kim said, “If the prosecution or the Ministry of Strategy and Finance make a mistake, the media can publish it, but no technology-related institutions can publish it,” he said. Director Kim also mentioned the case of hair dye shampoo Modamoda. In November of last year, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety suspended the advertisement for Modamoda Shampoo, saying that it could be mistaken for a pharmaceutical or functional cosmetic. ), an administrative notice to ban ingredients from being used in cosmetics. Academia pointed out that the decision of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, which announced regulatory measures four months after the shampoo was released, was premature. The Regulatory Reform Committee under the Prime Minister’s Office also recommended a review by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, which designated the ingredients in this shampoo as banned ingredients for cosmetics.
The Yun Seok-yeol government has been driving the deregulation since its inception. The business community is paying attention to whether institutions that have been in the blind spot of regulatory reform, such as the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the Korean Intellectual Property Office, will join the change. Minister of Food and Drug Safety Oh Yu-kyung met with CEOs of the domestic pharmaceutical industry on the 2nd and announced that he would actively support the development of new drugs through rational regulatory improvement. In a recent press interview, Insil Lee, Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office, promised, “We will boldly improve regulations and improve the quality of IP services so that companies that are consumers of intellectual property (IP) policies can feel it.”
Will the Yoon Seok-yeol administration’s regulatory reforms be successful? Will the promises of the heads of ‘absolute power institutions’ be kept? With the easing of business regulations, such as the mandatory closure of large marts, which was counted as ‘regulatory reform No. 1’ by the Yoon Seok-yeol administration, the outlook does not seem very bright. I think that regulatory reform will be a real test of the Yun Seok-yeol administration’s capabilities.
By Lim Do-won, staff reporter [email protected]
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