[Weekly Kyunghyang] “The employee behind the leak of 33.7 million pieces of Coupang personal information was Chinese… already resigned, left Korea”...
In the Coupang affair, an ‘anti-China’ frame pushes corporate structural responsibility to the back burner Is the crime rate among Chinese nationals high? Police Agency statistics show the claim is far from the facts At a press conference titled ‘Application for Collective Dispute Mediation over Coupang Personal Data Leak’ held on the 3rd in front of Coupang’s headquarters in Songpa-gu, Seoul by People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, MINBYUN Committee on People’s Livelihood Economy, and the Korea Consumer Federation, participants stage a performance calling for an apology and accountability.
Yonhap News “The employee behind the leak of 33.7 million pieces of Coupang personal information was Chinese… already resigned, left Korea”, “Amid the ‘Chinese cartel’ commotion… C-commerce grows cautious as well” These are headlines from major outlets covering Coupang’s recently revealed massive customer personal data leak. As it became known that the prime suspect is a former employee of Chinese nationality who previously handled authentication work at Coupang, a security incident stemming from corporate negligence is spilling over into an ‘anti-Chinese’ controversy. A search on the news big-data analysis site ‘BigKinds’ for articles with both ‘Coupang’ and ‘China’ in the headline between November 30 and December 3 returned a total of 70 results. Even before police have released findings on any suspect, the suspect’s ‘nationality’which is hard to see as directly related to the cause of this incidenthas been spotlighted. At a regular briefing on December 1, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said it was “keeping multiple possibilities open and investigating,” taking a cautious stance on the suspect’s nationality. In this climate, the political sphere is stoking hostility and using it as a tool for partisan attacks. Na Kyung-won, a People Power Party lawmaker, said, “If President Lee Jae-myung cannot clearly demand from the Chinese government a formal investigation, arrest, and extradition even in a case of this magnitude, it is an admission that this is a ‘pro-China sse-sse administration’ that watches China’s reaction before the basic rights of the public.” Kim Min-su, a Supreme Council member of the same party, said, “Hacking and personal data leaks by Chinese have long exceeded the danger threshold,” citing examples of serious crimes involving Chinese nationals and suspicions of comment manipulation by Chinese accounts. Comment sections on reports of his remarks were flooded with hate speech linking Chinese people to crime. But statistics show these claims are far from the truth. According to last year’s crime statistics from the National Police Agency, among foreigners residing in Korea, the number of criminal suspects per 1,000 people for Chinese nationals was 16.78lower than those from Mongolia , Uzbekistan , and Russia , among others. As for the assertion that the number of crimes by Chinese is high, it effectively ignores the fact that Chinese nationals make up by far the largest share of foreigners residing in Korea. As of December 2024, the number of Chinese nationals residing in Korea stood at 958,959more than double the figure for No. 2, Vietnam .The problem is that such a hate frame can obscure the essential issues of a crime or accident. In the Coupang case as well, the moment it is fixed in a ‘Chinese crime’ frame, structural responsibilitysuch as lax data management or weak security systems on the corporate sideinevitably gets pushed aside. In a statement, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy said, “Had Coupang caused a large-scale data leak in the United States, it would have had to pay at least hundreds of billions of won in damages through mechanisms such as class actions,” adding, “Some outlets are raising suspicions about the involvement of an employee of Chinese nationality, and we strongly suspect this is an attempt to minimize Coupang's responsibility.” Jeong Hoe-ok, a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Myongji University, said, “Even when the core cause of a crime is not directly related to what country the offender is from, highlighting a specific country can be regarded as a hate act that strays from the essence of the matter.”
Corporate Responsibility Is Obscured
대한민국 최근 뉴스, 대한민국 헤드 라인
Similar News:다른 뉴스 소스에서 수집한 이와 유사한 뉴스 기사를 읽을 수도 있습니다.
Coupang “The leaked information also included the ‘communal entrance password’”···It was not stated in customer noticesIn the Coupang personal information leak affecting 33.7 million people, it has emerged that, in addition to the items previously known, the ‘commun...
더 많은 것을 읽으십시오 »
“Even if data on Koreans is leaked, they will keep using Coupang; losses will be limited”···A bitter outlook from JPMorganGlobal investment bank (IB) JPMorgan projected that because Coupang holds a monopolistic position in South Korea, Koreans will have little choice b...
더 많은 것을 읽으십시오 »
After massive data leak, anxious consumers weigh leaving CoupangShould I quit or not? The choice is yours. After news broke that the personal information of 33.7 million Coupang users had been leaked, a poll was...
더 많은 것을 읽으십시오 »
‘Personal data leak’ Coupang rebounds to close higher a day after plunge on the New York Stock ExchangeCoupang, whose share price had plunged due to the worst-ever personal data leak, finished slightly higher on the 2nd (local time), rebounding withi...
더 많은 것을 읽으십시오 »
Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) “Coupang, revise the notice from ‘exposure’ of personal information to ‘leak’ and notify again”The Personal Information Protection Commission requested that Coupang, where a large-scale personal information leak occurred, correct its personal...
더 많은 것을 읽으십시오 »