Business Introduction
Samil Pharmacy & Trading
Samil Pharmacy & Trading has been doing its best since 1967.
In 2016, YD Global Life Science company acquired management authority for Samil Pharmacy & Trading through investment and increased the number of staff wholly responsible for large-scale customers and strengthened professionalism through medical affairs department. This enabled YD to do its best effort to prevent any problem in maintaining collaborative relationship with customer hospitals as Korea’s No 1 distributor in the area of diagnostic medical science and helped YD to complete all preparation to provide differentiated service based on Customer-focused Value Creation.
YD Global Life Science and Samil Pharmacy & Trading will make more effort to be able to give substantial help by bringing out the best in both companies.
2017 Loo Jin-woo became the CEO of Samil Pharmacy & Trading
2016 Merged with YD Global Life Science
Relocated to new offices of YD Global Life Science
2013 Received commendation from the Minister of Health and welfare
2008 Signed a domestic supply agreement with Viogene
2007 Held the 40th anniversary celebration of the foundation
2006 Signed domestic distributorship for sample processing with Statspin r
2004 Signed domestic distributorship for Urine Chemistry with ARKRAY in Japan
2003 Signed domestic distributorship for diagnostic medical device with Werfen IL
2002 Launched ARCTHITECT i2000 device and reagent
Selected Hanvit Bank as a partner company
1999 Received commendation from the Minister of Finance (Honest tax payer)
1998 Held the 40th anniversary celebration of the foundation
1997 Choi Woo-jong, the CEO of Samil passed away
and Choi Soon-gyu became a new CEO of Samil
1996 Choi Woo-jong became the chairman of Korea Pharmaceutical Reagent Wholesalers’ Association
1995 Received commendation from the Director of the National Tax Service(Honest tax payer)
1994 Launched 3rd generation Automated Immunoassay Diagnostic Analyzer System (AxSYM) and reagents
Registered as a member of AFTK
1990 Launched Automated Immunoassay Diagnostic Analyzer System (IMX) and reagents
Signed exclusive domestic distributor agreement for diagnostic medical device with Abbott in America and launched them
1985 Registered medical equipment sales business
1984 Converted to a corporation, Samil Pharmacy & Trading Inc.
Received commendation from the Minister of Finance (Honest tax payer)
Relocated headquarter to a new building(230, Sangdo-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
1981 Signed exclusive domestic distributor agreement for diagnostic medical device with WAKO in Japan
1978 Secured a wholesale dealer license for medicine
1977 Secured an import license for medical equipment
1967 Established Samil Pharmaceutical company(in the Samil building in Seoul)
