SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — E-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is facing accusations that it has been manipulating the working hours of employees. Rep. Yun Jun-byeong of the ruling Democratic Party claimed during government inspections of the Ministry of Employment and Labor and its sub-agencies on Tuesday that Coupang was using an application called ‘Coupunch’ [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — E-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is facing suspicion that its customer data is being managed by a subsidiary in China and the risk of information leakage is high since the Chinese government can access such information. Independent lawmaker Yang Jung-suk claimed that Coupang has stored and managed customer and location [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Friday it will closely look into unfair business activity by online platform giants here amid their increased market dominance, apparently targeting Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. Concerns have mounted that powerful online platform operators have abused their dominant market status and engaged in unfair [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Thursday it has decided to fine e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. 3.3 billion won (US$2.8 million) for alleged unfair business practice. Between 2017 and 2020, Coupang demanded its suppliers raise sales prices of products trading at its rival online malls if one-off sales promotion events [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Thursday its sales hit a new high in the second quarter of the year, but it posted big losses due largely to a one-off cost. Sales stood at US$4.48 billion in the April-June period, up 71 percent from a year earlier, the [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — After stoking a series of controversies, including a fire at a logistics center and a poor working conditions, e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is now facing a government investigation into alleged unfair practices. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) recently noted that Coupang might have violated the Fair Trade Law [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — E-commerce giant Coupang Inc. faces arguably the worst crisis since its initial public offering in March over a recent fire at one of its warehouses that killed a firefighter. Coupang is under mounting public outcry over the death of the 52-year-old male firefighter, who was found dead last weekend [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — E-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is under fire for its poor working environment and its founder following a massive fire at one of the company’s warehouses. Some netizens are leading a boycott of Coupang by canceling their membership and deleting the Coupang app. ‘Leaving Coupang’ has become a real-time trend [...]
ICHEON, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A firefighter who was trapped in a fire that tore through a Coupang Inc. warehouse was found dead by rescue workers Saturday, officials said. Kim Dong-shik, 52, was found in the second-floor basement of the e-commerce giant’s four-story building in Icheon, 80 kilometers southeast of Seoul, shortly after rescue [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Thursday it will invest 220 billion won (US$195 million) to launch a new distribution center in the southeastern port city of Busan to spur its global capacities. Coupang said it will set up a new distribution center on a 170,000-square-meter tract of [...]