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“Regulate it by illegalizing it?” Lim Gil-Won asked Hwang Jun-Young.
“Yes. A regular company will basically be able to view health information, which is more sensitive than hospital medical records, so we should be able to regulate it if we challenge it based on the Personal Information and Privacy Act.”
“Kyah!” Baek Joong-Hyuk, the executive vice president, exclaimed. “Sir, you are amazing. An outstanding insight, sir.”
However, Lim Gil-Won frowned. He spoke while maintaining a cool head as much as possible.
“Sir, it won’t be that easy.”
“It won’t work?”
“Originally, you needed a doctor’s permission to receive genetic testing in Korea. But now, the law has been revised so that ordinary companies receive samples from customers and do it arbitrarily.”
“...”
“It won’t be easy to flip it around a year after it has been revised and make it illegal. Ryu Young-Joon proceeded with this business also knowing that as well.”
“Why are they allowing things like that to regular companies?” Baek Joong-Hyuk said, worked up.
“That’s the trend the international diagnostic market is heading in. In the U.S., regular companies have been doing genetic testing for individuals for a long time,” Lim Gil-Won explained. “Of course, it was not against disease-related genes, but to find someone’s ethnic origins as America is a multinational country.”
“...”
“The market for diagnosing diseases is increasing as those companies get bigger. Although, there hasn’t been anyone who did it this big by buying two hundred of those expensive pieces of equipment and doing the Genome Project...
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