A employee walks by vans at a Coupang success heart in Seoul on Dec. 17, 2025. (Yonhap)
The cross-ministry job pressure organized by the Korean authorities to research an enormous leak of non-public info at e-commerce big Coupang and its general enterprise operations held its first assembly Tuesday. Along with assessing duty for the leak, the duty pressure’s job is to pursue systemic reforms to pressure Coupang to take higher care of its staff and distributors.
The pan-government job pressure held its first planning session on Tuesday on the central authorities complicated in Seoul, with the assembly chaired by Ryu Je-myung, the second vice minister of the Ministry of Science and ICT. The officers on the assembly shared the actions taken by every ministry and mentioned how the duty pressure must be operated to realize a swift decision and impose stern disciplinary measures.
“The federal government plans to reply with stern measures to any authorized violations that will flip up on this investigation. Going ahead, we are going to stand with the Korean individuals, figuring out issues at Coupang and holding the corporate absolutely accountable till Koreans’ suspicions and issues have been absolutely addressed,” Ryu mentioned.
The duty pressure was arrange in response to a variety of questions raised about Coupang’s safety and enterprise operations throughout a listening to on the Nationwide Meeting’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee on Dec. 17, as public anxiousness unfold over the leak of buyer knowledge at Coupang.
The assembly on Tuesday was led by the Ministry of Science and ICT and likewise attended by officers from the Ministry of Employment and Labor; the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport; the Ministry of SMEs and Startups; the Private Data Safety Fee; the Korea Media and Communications Fee; the Monetary Companies Fee; the Korea Truthful Commerce Fee; the Nationwide Intelligence Service; and the Nationwide Police Company.
The federal government means for the duty pressure’s dialogue to give attention to reinforcing company duty for safeguarding susceptible sectors of society by the next measures: investigating infractions and accidents, stopping customers from struggling secondary injury, updating methods for verifying basic and private info, and defending distributors and staff.
In the meantime, Ahn Gweon-seop, a particular counsel main a probe into allegations {that a} senior prosecutor pressured a subordinate to not cost Coupang with failure to pay severance, carried out raids Tuesday morning of the Coupang headquarters within the Songpa District of Seoul and a “secret workplace” close to Gangnam Station believed to be operated by Coupang’s authorities lobbying staff.
The particular counsel staff’s search warrant lists suspicions that Coupang Success Companies violated the Act on the Assure of Staff’ Retirement Advantages, in addition to alleged abuse of energy and interference with the train of lawful rights in reference to the identical case.
Coupang Success Companies is accused of adjusting employment guidelines to the detriment of staff in Could 2023 in order to keep away from paying them severance. After discovering that the brand new employment guidelines have been invalid, the Bucheon department workplace of the Ministry of Employment and Labor in January requested the prosecutors to research the CEO of Coupang Success Companies for violating the retirement advantages regulation. However the Bucheon department workplace of the Incheon District Prosecutors’ Workplace closed the case with out submitting costs in April.
Mun Ji-seok, the prosecutor chargeable for the case, claimed that Eom Hui-jun, the previous head of the Bucheon department workplace, blocked him from indicting the Coupang government regardless of appreciable incriminating proof.
By Solar Dam-eun, workers reporter
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