Coupang Faces Scrutiny
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South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang is navigating scrutiny, including a U.S. House report criticized as one-sided by South Korea's Democratic Party. The company also recovered monthly payment volumes despite a data leak.
Former Coupang CEO Sent to Prosecutors Over Alleged Lies at Hearings on Overwork Death and Data Leak
Former Coupang CEO Park Dae-joon has been sent to prosecutors over allegations that he lied during a National Assembly hearing on the company’s data leak and worker deaths from overwork. Seoul Metropolitan Police’s anti-corruption investigation unit referred Park and Coupang Vice President Cho Yong-woo to the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office on Sept. 1 on charges including perjury under…
Coupang calls itself a US company when lobbying, but a Korean platform in data-breach lawsuit
Coupang is presenting itself as an American company when it lobbies US officials, but as a Korean platform now that it faces a US data-breach lawsuit. That contradiction shaped the first hearing in a …
Labor ministry and police raid Coupang logistics center over forklift accident
South Korea’s labor ministry and police raided a Coupang logistics center in Gwangju on the morning of the 2nd, seeking evidence of whether safety obligations were met during a forklift accident on th…
Police search Coupang logistics center over forklift entrapment accident
Police launched a compulsory investigation at a Coupang logistics center in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, following a forklift accident that seriously injured a man in his 40s. Thirteen investigators fr…