Coupang Inc. Founder and Board Chairman Kim Bom-suk / Korea Occasions file
Coupang Inc. founder Kim Bom-suk has stated he wouldn’t seem for a parliamentary listening to this week over the e-commerce large’s huge information breach that affected practically 34 million individuals, lawmakers stated Sunday.
Kim, the chair of Coupang’s board, submitted an announcement on his non-appearance for the listening to scheduled Wednesday, based on Democratic Get together of Korea (DPK) lawmakers of the parliamentary science, ICT, broadcasting, and communications committee.
Park Dae-jun and Kang Han-seung, former CEOs of the U.S.-listed firm’s Korean unit, additionally notified the lawmakers of their non-appearance.
Late final month, Coupang disclosed that the non-public info of 33.7 million prospects had been compromised, together with their names, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and supply particulars, sparking scrutiny from lawmakers of the corporate’s practices.
“These accountable at Coupang have shunned the general public and the Nationwide Meeting and selected to run away,” the DPK lawmakers stated, vowing to push for laws that will stop executives of huge platform firms from evading accountability.
Rep. Choi Min-hee, head of the parliamentary science committee, posted the non-appearance statements from Kim and the previous CEOs on Fb.
Kim’s assertion stated he was unable to look for the listening to as a consequence of official enterprise commitments as a CEO of a world firm.
