Young-sun Park “Shall I send a syringe to Japan?”… The next day, “Actually, I’m putting off my run for this.”

Input 2021.02.20 18:08 | Revision 2021.02.20 19:19

“I will persuade the mid-term boss that I won’t do it”

Park Young-sun, a preliminary candidate for the Mayor of the Democratic Party of Seoul, said on the 20th that a Korean small and medium-sized company has successfully developed and approved the production of a special syringe with the help of Samsung and the government. (Seoul Mayor) The announcement was delayed.”

On this day, Candidate Park posted a post on Facebook entitled’The Miracle of Christmas and the Reason for My Late Run for Market’ and “(special syringes) a great achievement achieved by the public-private partnership from the manufacture of syringe molds to FDA approval in December last year.” He said. Candidate Park also shared several photos of her meeting with Mihee Cho, Vice President of Poonglim Pharmatech, who developed a special syringe.

Candidate Park said, “How anxious would Poonglim Pharmatech CEO Cho be if I persuaded the small and medium-sized business owner that he would not do so, and if I quit without FDA approval? He said, “Poonglim was initially concerned about technology takeover by large companies,” and said, “I made a guarantee that there would be no technology takeover, and I was invited.”

Candidate Park also posted a post about the company on Facebook the day before (19th). Candidate Park requested that the Japanese government purchase large quantities of special syringes for vaccination produced by Korean companies, but shared an article stating that the reactions were mixed among netizens, and said, “Vice President Poonglim Pharmatech consulted on export issues to Japan.” Shouldn’t I send a syringe to Japan? I’m honestly worried.”

The key is that this special syringe, called LDS, minimizes the amount of remaining vaccine and increases the number of vaccines to be given to 10 to 12. Poonglim Pharmatech, which used to import and sell medical devices, began developing LDS syringes last year, and with the help of Samsung Electronics and the government, it completed the production of prototypes in a month.

The company said that it was approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the 17th with support from Samsung Bioepis and the Food and Drug Administration. President Moon Jae-in personally visited Poonglim Pharmatech in Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do on the 18th, and expressed his gratitude to Samsung, saying, “Following the diagnosis kit, we have shown the excellence of K-quarantine again.”

According to the company, Pfizer in the U.S. ordered 180 million units, and Japan recently requested to purchase about 80 million units. Japan, which started vaccinating against the coronavirus, is reported to be in danger of discarding the difficult vaccine because it could not obtain a syringe.

When this fact became known, among the domestic netizens, “You are only importing syringes with export restrictions?” “Please send it to me, but let’s put the phrase’Dokdo is our land’ and the picture of’Girls’ in the syringe.”