Absent Billionaire Kim Under Fire At Coupang Breach Hearing

Lawmakers assailed Coupang’s billionaire founder Bom Kim for failing to appear before a parliamentary hearing on South Korea’s biggest-ever data breach, underscoring rising public anger with the country’s dominant online retailer.

Kim’s absence dominated the special session on Wednesday on the breach, which compromised more than 30 million users’ personal information, including names, phone numbers and delivery details. The former head of Coupang’s Korean operations, Park Dae-jun, also failed to appear after resigning last week. Harold Rogers, Coupang Inc.’s chief administrative officer and newly appointed interim head of the Korean unit, attended the hearing alongside a range of lower-ranking Korean executives.