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NIS Seeks Perjury Charge Against Coupang Interim Chief Over Testimony on Breach Probe

Parliament will decide on a complaint during the hearing, with officials maintaining the leak affected about 33 million customers.

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Harold Rogers, interim chief of e-commerce giant Coupang Corp., takes an oath during a plenary session of the National Assembly in Seoul on Dec. 30, 2025, to inspect the online retailer over its massive data leak that affected nearly two-thirds of South Korea's population. (Yonhap)

Overview

  • Korea's intelligence agency asked the National Assembly to accuse Harold Rogers of perjury after he testified that the government directed Coupang's investigation of its data leak.
  • The NIS said it never ordered actions by Coupang and only requested materials, directly contradicting Rogers's sworn remarks.
  • Investigators disputed Rogers's account of evidence handling, stating Coupang imaged the suspect's hard drive on Dec. 15 before initial NIS contact and that the agency does not hold a copy.
  • Lawmakers are set to decide later Wednesday whether to file the perjury complaint as hearings scrutinize Coupang's data practices and the leak response.
  • The hearing was disrupted when Rogers rejected the Assembly’s interpreter, later proceeding with both the official earpiece and his personal interpreter, as the government reaffirmed an impact of roughly 33 million users that Coupang had revised down to about 3,000.