2020 년 02 월 28 일 01 시 34 분 
 Korea Center for Investigative Journalism ( KCIJ ) - Newstapa is launching ‘ The Vaccine Project : Medicine , Pharma and Money Project , ’ which diagnoses the national medical system , the pharmaceutical industry , and the government ’ s monitoring and supervision functions on them . 
 Healthcare services and drugs are directly related to the lives and property of the people . But as the Invossa scandal showed , the collusion of medicine , moneyl and power is deepening and the public nature of healthcare is often disregarded . Such trend has stemmed from the health sector , which has been dominated by capital and industrial logic in recent years . 
 KCIJ will ‘ inject vaccines ’ to ensure that the national medical system and pharma industry maintain their value as public good and remain sustainable , and that the government supervise them properly . The Vaccine Project will be continued for the next three years . 
 As its first series , KCIJ reports local pharma companies ’ illegal kickback sales practices over three days starting December 18 , 2019 . 
 If you ’ re familiar with the industry or healthcare system , send your tips or leaks to vaccine @ newstapa . org . - Editor ’ s Note 
 I ’ m a salesman for a pharma company named Inist Bio Pharmaceutical . Ever since first entered the pharma sales , I ’ ve worked at three companies . It ’ s been eight years . 
 Now I know this industry quite well that I can throw names and prices of specific type of drugs I sell . But to tell little bit about myself , I actually majored computer science in college . As my major didn ’ t suit me well , I decided to find a job in a different field . 
 When I first stepped in to the pharma industry , I didn ' t know that my job is to sell drugs by paying doctors . Senior staffs didn ’ t even teach me how to give kickback . No one learns it from someone else . You learn it by your own experience and get to know how the industry works . 
 I mainly targeted private clinics in Seoul , particularly small dermatologist clinics in the neighborhood . I paid my client doctors cash in exchange for prescribing Inist brand ’ s drugs . 
 In pharma industry , it ' s illegal to give out kickback in a compensation for exclusively prescribing certain brand . Doctors move so fast to put money away as soon as they get an envelope full of cash -- even inside his office , when there ’ s just between two of us . 
 The receivers know it ’ s a shame to accept the money . The company , which orders us to become their kickback delivery man , also know it ’ s illegal . The company delivers the dirty money by salesmen ’ s hands . 
 Are you tasked to deliver illegal kickbacks ? 
 Blow the whistle to The Vaccine Project by KCIJ - Newstapa 
 Reporting by Wooram Hong , Jiyoon Kim 
 Video by Sang - chan Lee , Joon - sik Oh , Hyung - seok Choi , Young - cheol Shin 
 Video Edited by Jisung Jung 
 CG by Dong - woo Jung 
 Design by Do - hyeon Lee