{"id":14890,"date":"2026-05-13T04:57:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14890\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:57:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:57:48","slug":"south-korea-and-us-in-showdown-over-coupang-meddling-testing-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14890\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea and US in showdown over Coupang meddling, testing ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik condemned US Republicans\u2019 claim that <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/south-korea?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Korea<\/a> was discriminating against e-commerce giant Coupang, calling it \u201cinterference in domestic affairs\u201d.His remarks followed a letter sent by 54 US lawmakers in the Republican Study Committee to South Korean Ambassador to the United States Kang Kyung-wha, in which they claimed Seoul was taking discriminatory and unfair actions against the US-based company that is under police investigation and government scrutiny for a massive customer <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3334890\/south-koreas-coupang-took-5-months-spot-data-leak-affecting-over-33-million-people?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data leak<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cCoupang is under multiple allegations, such as a massive data breach and algorithm rigging. If US Republicans say it is a discriminatory measure against US firms, it means they do not respect Korean laws,\u201d Woo said on an SBS radio show on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis is an apparent intervention in domestic affairs and should not happen \u2026 If Korean companies did the same things [data leak and algorithm rigging] in the US, would the US let it go?\u201d he said. \u201cI urge Republicans not to meddle in Korea\u2019s legal affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Woo also lashed out at Coupang, saying that it has to abide by South Korean laws and follow government policies if it does business and earns profits in the country. \u201cIt seems the company wants to make money in Korea as it pleases, but ignore Korean sentiment. Coupang should show respect to Koreans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the letter, the Republican lawmakers urged South Korea to stop targeting American companies, with Coupang cited alongside major tech companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik condemned US Republicans\u2019 claim that South Korea was discriminating against e-commerce giant Coupang,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[426,10952,10951,10955,10953,34,2322,10954,112,33,2373,10956,444,1332,1723],"class_list":{"0":"post-14890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-coupang","8":"tag-coupang","9":"tag-kang-kyung-wha","10":"tag-korea-us","11":"tag-national-assembly-speaker-woo-won-shik","12":"tag-national-security-adviser-wi-sung-lac","13":"tag-north-korea","14":"tag-president-lee-jae-myung","15":"tag-republican-study-committee","16":"tag-seoul","17":"tag-south-korea","18":"tag-the-korea-times","19":"tag-unification-minister-chung-dong-young","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}