A Seoul administrative court temporarily suspends a 201.1 billion-won ($147.74 million) fine against e-commerce company Coupang related to unauthorized collection of user data. The Personal Information Protection Commission had imposed the penalty after Coupang collected online activity records from about 11.17 million users and stored them in its database without consent. The court grants Coupang an injunction and suspends execution of the fine until 30 days after the first verdict in a separate main lawsuit seeking to cancel the surcharges.
Separate from that case, outlets also report on Coupang’s attempt to halt a much larger penalty tied to a data breach. A different Seoul court rejects Coupang’s injunction bid over a separate roughly 423 billion-won fine levied over a breach affecting more than 37 million users, which the regulator describes as the largest fine it has issued to a single company. One outlet adds context on the breach reporting timeline and the legal basis for fines under South Korea’s personal information protection framework. Overall coverage distinguishes between the suspended unauthorized-data-collection fine and the not-yet-stopped data-breach fine.
