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New narcotics are appearing frequently all around the world, and health authorities are busy to cope with these. Because Korea has no specific article about drug designation in narcotic act, drug list of its enforcement ordinance should be amended whenever new narcotics appear. Such a procedure is time-consuming and ineffective. Some related statutes of other countries were investigated to improve this. An emergency procedure of USA and Germany which designates individual drugs temporarily omitting some procedure in urgent cases was introduced to our act on June, 2011. An analogue system of USA that a substance which has a substantially similar chemical structure with a controlled substance will be treated as a controlled substance is effective to cope with newly appearing derivatives, but the definition is too vague. The scope of each analogue is definite in New Zealand and UK, but the scientific background is not clear. For urgent improvement, some analogues were added to our drug list on February, 2011 based on Canadian analogue system.