{"id":102843,"date":"2026-07-29T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/102843\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:39:11","slug":"korean-lawmaker-sends-rebuttal-to-us-house-over-coupang-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/102843\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Lawmaker Sends Rebuttal to US House Over Coupang Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Rebuttal materials on Coupang submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Kim Hyun-jung of the Democratic Party. Office of Rep. Kim Hyun-jung - Seoul Economic Daily Politics News from South Korea\" title=\"Korean Lawmaker Sends Rebuttal to US House Over Coupang Report\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/news-p.v1.20260729.65d3460ac7d44705b419c3a05258f9c6_P1.jpg\"\/>Rebuttal materials on Coupang submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Kim Hyun-jung of the Democratic Party. Office of Rep. Kim Hyun-jung<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Rep. Kim Hyun-jung of the Democratic Party of Korea delivered a rebuttal dossier to members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on the 29th. After the U.S. House released a Coupang report claiming that Korea was discriminating against Coupang, an American company, the lawmaker raised a counterargument at the parliamentary level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">In a press release that day, Kim said the report &#8220;was written to suggest that the Korean government has systematically discriminated against and attacked only American companies.&#8221; She pointed out that &#8220;it even draws on past trade disputes in the automotive sector, which are not directly related to the Coupang case, using them as grounds to highlight an &#8216;image of Korea discriminating against American companies.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Kim also assessed that the report &#8220;cites only Coupang&#8217;s claims to state that &#8216;the personal information actually stored amounts to only about 3,000 cases,&#8217; and describes the case as close to a &#8216;small-scale internal deviation&#8217; centered on a former employee&#8217;s unauthorized storage, thereby drastically minimizing the entire incident.&#8221; Unlike the U.S. House&#8217;s Coupang report, according to the Korean government&#8217;s investigation, Coupang is known to have leaked approximately 33.67 million cases of personal information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Accordingly, Kim sent the rebuttal dossier to members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. The dossier contained the nature and limitations of the Coupang report, rebuttals to each key claim, and a reorganization of the facts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">It also included the approximately 33.67 million cases of personal information leaked as confirmed by the Korean government&#8217;s investigation, the exposure of sensitive information such as phone numbers, addresses, and shared entrance passwords, and the point that in the case of large-scale breaches, multiple agencies may launch investigations simultaneously under relevant laws, and that this investigative structure applies equally to domestic companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Kim said, &#8220;The U.S. House Coupang report relies heavily on Coupang&#8217;s one-sided claims and lobbying, without sufficiently reflecting the positions of the Korean government and regulators, the domestic legal framework, the objective facts of the case, and the Korea-U.S. FTA and international trade norms.&#8221; She added, &#8220;Discussions based on facts, legal principles, and institutional context must come first, and the interests of an individual company must not result in distorting the Korea-U.S. alliance and trade relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">She emphasized, &#8220;By delivering more accurate facts and legal principles to the U.S. Judiciary Committee, the National Assembly will continue to play its role so that the Korea-U.S. alliance and trade relations can be discussed based on accurate information rather than misunderstanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebuttal materials on Coupang submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. 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