According to Yakup Newspaper (Korea Pharmaceutical Industry News) dated July 22, 2002, SK Pharmaceutical?s ?TRAST Patch? and ?LEVOPRIDE? ranked 24th and 40th among the 100 top-selling finished pharmaceutical products of 2001 with 21,589,452,000 won and 15,284,593,000 won. Compared to 2000, the sales of ?Trast Patch? and ?LEVOPRIDE? have each increased by 30.08% and 116.07%. Also in the overall production performance, Dong Shin Pharmaceutical ranked 24th in the industry by recording 78,127,356,000 won with an increase of 41.11% from last year while SK Pharmaceutical took the 35th place by showing 47.27% growth to achieve 58,595,121,000 won. Combining the production performances of the two companies, their total production in 2001 reached 136,722,477,000 won to have the 14th largest production scale in the Korean pharmaceutical industry.