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Hanmi Pharmaceutical granted Genentech exclusive rights outside Korea to develop, manufacture and commercialize the UCN2 analog HM17321 for obesity and related metabolic diseases.
Singer Seo In-young revealed that she underwent upper-arm liposuction while preparing to return to a festival stage after about 10 years.
Experts at a September 10 symposium called for appropriate prescribing and effective oversight of GLP-1 obesity drugs as misuse and illegal distribution raised concern.
South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is pursuing a designation of GLP-1 obesity drugs as medicines of concern for misuse, targeting completion this month.
Novo Nordisk announced that its STEP Young phase 3 trial of once-weekly Wegovy met its primary endpoint in children aged 6 to under 12 with obesity.
Obesity experts estimated that adult obesity costs South Korea more than KRW 23 trillion annually and called for integrated national management of the chronic disease.
Seoul authorities identified 25 plastic surgery and dermatology clinics that violated medical-waste disposal rules and referred 25 people for prosecution.
Humedix joined the 2026 Korean Society of Aesthetic, Obesity and Regenerative Medicine 2nd Live Academy and presented a session on AestheFill procedure strategy.
Hanmi Pharmaceutical granted Genentech exclusive rights outside South Korea to develop, manufacture, and commercialize the obesity and metabolic disease candidate HM17321.
A Catholic University of Korea research team found that shear-wave elastography built into abdominal ultrasound may help identify fatty liver patients at elevated risk of liver cancer and serious liver complications.
Chung-Ang University Hospital performed open vascular-graft surgery on a 90-year-old woman whose abdominal aortic aneurysm had enlarged to about 11 cm after two earlier endovascular procedures.
JW Pharmaceutical applied to Korea's drug regulator to test the efficacy and safety of once-every-two-weeks bofanglutide in 300 adults with obesity or overweight.
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Small-area liposuction refines a stubborn contour under local anesthesia, but it is still surgery that shapes rather than slims.
Injection lipolysis can modestly reduce small, defined fat pockets over several sessions, but it is no shortcut to weight loss.
Enlarged male breast tissue can be glandular, fatty or both, and telling them apart is the first real step, not the surgery.
The operation removes fat cells from targeted zones — a change the scale barely registers, but the silhouette does.
When major weight loss leaves folds of skin that no exercise will tighten, body lift surgery removes the excess and re-drapes the rest.
