Explo­sive House report reveals secret oper­a­tion inside Chi­na at cen­ter of South Kore­a’s fight with US com­pa­ny

The House Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee released a scathing report detail­ing how the left-lean­ing South Kore­an gov­ern­ment, which some law­mak­ers say is “aligned with Chi­na,” has sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly dis­crim­i­nat­ed against Amer­i­can-owned companies.The report heav­i­ly men­tions the case of Coupang, a Seat­tle-based U.S. com­pa­ny dubbed the “Ama­zon of Korea,” though it has no rela­tion to Ama­zon. Coupang has faced strict scruti­ny from the Kore­an gov­ern­ment after a data breach. Coupang recent­ly was fined rough­ly $410 mil­lion by South Korea, the largest pri­va­cy fine in South Kore­a’s history.The Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee out­lined the time­line of how Coupang came under heavy fire by the South Kore­an gov­ern­ment, from a secret lap­top recov­ery mis­sion to South Korea’s Nation­al Intel­li­gence Ser­vice call­ing for Coupang Korea inter­im CEO Harold Rogers to be charged with per­jury. He has yet to b …