Seoul, Feb 11 || Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said on Wednesday that the government has been conducting a probe into the South Korean unit of US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang under principle without discrimination, refuting criticism from the US political circle.
Bae made the remark during a parliamentary session, after the US House Judiciary Committee began investigating what it has called South Korea's "discriminatory targeting" of American companies last Thursday (US time), reports news agency.
"(The probe by South Korea) is being implemented under the law and principle," Bae said, responding to a lawmaker's question on whether the government has taken any discriminatory measures against Coupang.
Coupang reported a massive data breach in November, in which personal information, including names, phone numbers, email addresses and delivery details, was exposed.
The company, citing its own investigation, initially claimed that data from only 3,000 accounts had been leaked.
A joint public-private probe into the breach, however, confirmed on Tuesday that over 33.6 million accounts have been exposed.