Seems interesting that there appears to have been a patent application for LK-99 (https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20230030188A/en?oq=WO202...) filed two years ago in August 2021 (a year earlier than the article suggests).
If true, it seems wild to sit on this kind of discovery for over two years.
Update: Seems like there might be even more history given the name LK-99 apparently comes from the names of its discoverers Dr. Lee and Dr. Kim, and the year of its discovery, 1999 (https://kr.linkedin.com/in/ji-hoon-kim-03508b80).