”Domestic cigarette sales volume” decreases for the first time in four years... ”Duty-free sales volume” surges by 60% = South Korea

In South Korea, cigarette sales volume decreased for the first time in four years last year, but as demand for overseas travel recovered, sales of duty-free cigarettes increased sharply, so cigarette sales volume actually increased.
Ta. According to the South Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance on the 31st, cigarette sales in South Korea last year totaled 3.61 billion boxes, a decrease of 0.6% from the previous year (3.63 billion boxes). yearly
This is the first time in four years that domestic cigarette sales have decreased since 2019 (-0.7%).
Domestic cigarette sales volume increased from 3.47 billion boxes in 2018 to 3.45 billion in 2019
Since then, the number of boxes has decreased to 3.59 billion boxes in 2020, 3.59 billion boxes in 2021, and 3.63 billion boxes in 2022, which is about the same or slightly increased from the previous year.
Meanwhile, the sales volume of duty-free cigarettes last year was 140 million boxes, an increase of 60.7% from the previous year. The actual cigarette sales volume, including tax-free cigarettes and domestic cigarettes, is 3.74 billion yen.
0 million boxes, an increase of 0.8% from the previous year, marking the second consecutive year of increase.