The House Judiciary Committee released a scathing report detailing how the left-leaning South Korean government, which some lawmakers say is "aligned with China," has systematically discriminated against American-owned companies.The report heavily mentions the case of Coupang, a Seattle-based U.S.company dubbed the "Amazon of Korea," though it has no relation to Amazon.
Coupang has faced strict scrutiny from the Korean government after a data breach.Coupang recently was fined roughly $410 million by South Korea, the largest privacy fine in South Korea's history.The Judiciary Committee outlined the timeline of how Coupang came under heavy fire by the South Korean government, from a secret laptop recovery mission to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service calling for Coupang Korea interim CEO Harold Rogers to be charged with perjury.
He has yet to be formally charged or indicted and did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Last June, a Chinese national who was a former senior engineer at Coupang began accessing data and consumer information outside of Korea for several months.Coupang's security team confirmed the breach in November, and the Judiciary report detailed that the former employee admitted to stealing an authentication key to gain access to the data.CHAD WOLF: AMERICA CANNOT IGNORE CHINA’S ECONOMIC ATTACK ON US INDUSTRYSouth Korean President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a press conference on his G7 trip at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on June 19, 2026.
(Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)Once confirmed last November, Coupang reported the breach to the Korea Internet & Security Agency and said roughly 3,000 accounts had been accessed, according to the report.In December, the committee said that Coupang was instructed to retrieve the stolen data, which was stored on a laptop and at the bottom of a murky river in China.The report alleged that Coupang was told by South Korea's National Intelligence Service to retrieve th...