Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation

KT&G Corporation (Korean: 주식회사 케이티앤지), originally Korea Tobacco & Ginseng, also branded as Korea Tomorrow & Global, is the leading tobacco company in South Korea with annual sales over US$4 billion. KT&G was originally a government-owned monopoly but was privatised and today is publicly traded, competing for market share with other international tobacco firms such as Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, and Japan Tobacco.^[5] KT&G's sales volume share was 62% of the Korean market in 2009.^[7]

KT&G Corporation

Native name	주식회사 케이티앤지
Formerly	Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation
Company type	Public
Traded as	KRX: 033780
Industry	Tobacco
Predecessor	Korea Monopoly Corporation
Founded	April 1989; 36 years ago (1989-04)
Headquarters	Daejeon, Chungnam , South Korea
Key people	Bok-In Baek (President & CEO)[1]
Products	Cigarettes
Revenue	USD 3.9 billion [2] (2018)
Operating income	USD 1.07 billion [2] (2018)
Total assets	USD 10.1 billion [3] (2018)
Subsidiaries	KGC Yungjin Pharm
Footnotes / references [4][5][6]

KT&G also owns significant subsidiaries such as Korea Ginseng Corporation, Yungjin Pharm (a pharmaceutical company), and several bio ventures. Its headquarters are in Daejeon.

Brands

KT&G produces popular Korean cigarette brands such as The One, Indigo, Arirang, This, This Plus, Zest, Esse, Raison, and Lo Crux. It has been expanded outside Korea, especially through its superslim brand Esse in Russia and other Eastern European markets.

See also

• Smoking in South Korea