TABLE-S.Korea KT&G Q2 net profit up 13.4 pct y/y

July 23 (Reuters) - Three months to June 30, 2008

(in billions of won)

Q2 2008 Q2 2007
Net Profit 223.9 197.5
Operating profit 263.1 238.9
Net Sales 700.0 645.6

Note: KT&G Corp (033780.KS: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is South Korea's biggest tobacco
company, controlling 70 percent of the world's seventh-largest
cigarette market.

KT&G released the results at an investor relations meeting.
(Reporting by Cheon Jong-woo and Park Ju-min; Editing by Keiron
Henderson)