The herbal-derived drug sector is set to become an initial beneficiary once South Korea's relationship with North Korea improves, as the South is aiming to make use of its communist neighbor's abundant natural resources by jointly conducting research on natural products and herbal-derived drugs to beef up its global competitiveness in these sectors.
If the latest planned cooperative project is actually launched based on eased tensions on the peninsula, it is poised to help South Korea secure herbal drug materials, which are currently mostly imported and form an important component of medicine in the country
