{"id":20380,"date":"2020-01-29T03:33:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=20380"},"modified":"2020-01-29T03:33:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:33:04","slug":"vaping-news-south-korea-tobacco-companies-hnb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/20380","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: SOUTH KOREA [Tobacco Companies HNB]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"4etv5-0-0\">&#8220;In a rare move in the competitive tobacco industry, South Korea\u2019s KT&amp;G established a strategic alliance with Philip Morris International on Wednesday, to expand the market worldwide for its heat-not-burn cigarette brand lil. Under the contract, KT&amp;G will provide PMI with three of its heated tobacco products &#8212; lil Hybrid, lil Plus, lil Mini &#8212; and one e-vapor product, lil Vapor, for distribution. They did not reveal the specific dates and countries for the first release. KT&amp;G calls its heated tobacco products heat-not-burn (HNB) cigarettes, while PMI calls the category tobacco heating system (THS). The two sides are also in discussions for parallel branding of lil and PMI\u2019s Iqos for overseas markets, KT&amp;G said.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20200129000725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rivals join hands for global heated tobacco market<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20SOUTH%20KOREA%20%5BTobacco%20Companies%20HNB%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a rare move in the competitive tobacco industry, South Korea\u2019s KT&amp;G established a strategic alliance with Philip Morris International on Wednesday, to expand the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20381,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380\/revisions\/20381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}