Seoul – October 07, 2026 -- KT&G Corporation has started full-scale operations at a new cigarette plant in Pasuruan, East Java, pushing its Indonesian production capacity to as much as 35 billion sticks annually and completing a five-country global manufacturing network spanning South Korea, Indonesia, Russia, Kazakhstan and Türkiye.

Cannes – September 29, 2026 -- KT&G's ultra-slim cigarette brand ESSE surpassed KRW 1 trillion (approximately USD 700 million) in global sales in 2025, the South Korean tobacco maker announced at TFWA World 2026 in Cannes, France, running September 27 to October 1.

Seoul – September 23, 2026 -- KT&G Corporation closed its participation in InterTabac 2026, the world's largest tobacco trade fair, after operating an exhibition booth roughly four times larger than its 2025 footprint at the Dortmund, Germany event held September 15-17.