Handok (Chairman & CEO Young-Jin Kim, Vice President Jin-Ki Baek) is pioneering new fields, collaborating with world-class enterprises, and leading the healthcare industry in South Korea. Since its founding in 1954, Handok has established global standard systems and introduced advanced pharmaceutical technologies and superior medicines to South Korea through partnerships with leading global pharmaceutical companies.

In 2012, after 49 years of joint ventures, Handok became an independent company and declared its vision to become The Health Innovator as a global total healthcare company, expanding its business domains beyond treatment to include diagnosis and management.

Handok is a total healthcare company. Handok’s businesses mainly focus on prescription drugs along with consumer health care products, medical devices and in vitro diagnostics, food supplements and medical nutrition.

Handok is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies which highly value ethical business practices. It has fully implemented comprehensive codes of conduct. This commitment has been recognized with the Special Ethical Management Award conferred by the Health Industry CEO Summit in 2008 and the Excellence prize for Transparent Management by Korea’s five major economic organizations including KEF, FKI in 2010.