Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun (left) speaks to Brett Matthes, Coupang’s chief data safety officer, as they seem earlier than the Nationwide Meeting’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee on Dec. 2, 2025. (Yonhap)
Park Dae-jun, the CEO of the Korean on-line retail large Coupang, resigned Wednesday after an information breach uncovered the non-public knowledge of roughly 33.7 million customers.
The corporate introduced Park’s resignation on Wednesday.
“I deeply apologize for disappointing the general public over the current knowledge breach, and have determined to step down from all my positions to take full accountability for each the incident and the corporate’s response,” Park mentioned in an announcement.
The e-commerce platform mentioned that its US-based mum or dad firm, Coupang Inc., was actively working to deal with the incident, and had appointed Harold Rogers, the chief administrative officer and normal counsel, as interim CEO to deal with buyer issues.
“We deeply apologize for inflicting misery over the non-public data leak,” the corporate said. “We’ll focus our efforts on strengthening our safety to forestall a recurrence of this unlucky incident and try to win again the belief of the general public.”
The corporate is scheduled to attend a listening to by the Nationwide Meeting’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee on the info breach subsequent week on Wednesday.
The committee has requested quite a lot of present and former Coupang executives to seem, together with Coupang Inc. CEO Kim Bom-suk (often called Bom Kim within the US); Park Dae-jun, the not too long ago resigned CEO of Coupang Corp.; former CEO Kang Han-seung; Min Byeong-gi, the deputy head of coverage cooperation for the corporate; and Cho Yong-woo, the deputy head of Coupang’s authorities relations division.
“Kim Bom-suk has remained silent whereas Park resigned instantly earlier than the listening to. Coupang is busy hiding whereas the anxious public is having to return to phrases with an unprecedented knowledge leak involving 33.7 million customers,” mentioned Rep. Lee Hae-min of the Rebuilding Korea Occasion, who serves on the committee.
“The least that Kim may do is present his face, clarify the state of affairs and take accountability,” Lee mentioned.
By Lee Ju-bin, workers reporter
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