South Korea Hands Coupang a Record $409 Million Data Privacy Fine, Five Times Bigger Than Anything the Country Has Levied Before

South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has fined Coupang 624.7 billion won, equivalent to about 409 million United States dollars, for a 2025 data breach that exposed names, phone numbers, addresses, and order histories of 37.5 million customers and several million non-member delivery recipients. Read more.