Poisoning the Well: U.S.-Korea Trade Tension

Yeah, great.

That's terrific, Adam.

So Woonjung and Wonso, maybe we could, from your side, you can tell us from the Korean side.

So the, the Korean government has s- called this report one-sided, um, in its findings.

Um, generally, like, what, what are you seeing on the Korean side in terms of the response from the government, from industry, and also from the public? How is this being seen, uh, by the public? Um, and how upset...

Um, we know the government's very upset with C- Coupang.

How upset is the public overall with, uh, with, uh, all of these issues? So, uh, who wants to go first?

Yeah.

Do we go seniority? [laughs]

Yeah.

[laughs]

Okay.

Wonso.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, before I answer the question, uh, I like, I, I would like to add one more point.

Uh, to correctly understand the Korean government's, uh, response, uh, we need to clear up the confusing, confusion surrounding the scale of the data breach.

Mm-hmm.

Because Coupang insists that, like, only around 3,000 records were leaked.

But however, under Korean law, and even under US law, the scale is determined by the amount of data the hacker was able to access, not by amount of data the hacker actually downloaded.

So therefore, the actual scale of breach should be considered to involve, like, more than 30 million records, as the Korean government has claimed.

So this standard is also applied in other data breach cases.

So then on top of that, Korean government believes that Coupang attempted to conceal the data breach, so that's why the government is taking this matter very seriously.

And going back to the question, um, the public is very angry.

That's true.