TABLE-S.Korea KT&G Q1 net profit rises 11 pct
April 22 (Reuters) - Three months to March 31, 2009
(in billions of won)
Q1 2009 Q1 2008 Net Profit 256.5 230.4 Operating profit 294.0 225.7 Net Sales 675.7 555.8
Note: KT&G Corp (033780.KS) is the biggest tobacco company in South Korea, the world's seventh-largest cigarette market.
Starting this quarter, the company has adopted international financial reporting standards (IFRS), and numbers for the first quarter 2008 in this table were modified from the numbers reported then due to the accounting change. (Reporting by Jungyoun Park and Cheon Jong-woo in SEOUL; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)









