Coupang's interim CEO undergoes 14-hr questioning over perjury allegations

▲ Coupang's interim CEO Harold Rogers leaves the Seoul metropolitan investigative headquarters in Mapo on Feb. 7, 2026, after undergoing questioning over the company's massive data breach. (Yonhap)

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Coupang's interim CEO undergoes 14-hr questioning over perjury allegations

SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Yonhap) -- Harold Rogers, interim CEO of Coupang Corp., returned early Saturday after a 14-hour police questioning over allegations he committed perjury while testifying before the South Korean parliament in December.

Rogers is accused of lying under oath during a parliamentary hearing from Dec. 30-31 on Coupang's massive data breach that has affected more than 33 million customers in South Korea.

He told lawmakers that Coupang conducted its own probe into a Chinese national suspected of involvement in the data breach and confiscated his laptop at the instructions of the National Intelligence Service, South Korea's spy agency.

Police were expected to interrogate Rogers about the allegations.

Appearing from the Seoul police investigative headquarters in Mapo at 3:25 a.m., Rogers left without answering questions from reporters.

Rogers has been questioned twice in a week as police hone in on the data breach case belatedly disclosed by the U.S.-listed e-commerce giant in November.

Police will likely bring him in for another round of interrogation over suspicions of a cover-up in connection with the death of a Coupang worker at a logistics center in 2020.

Rogers is expected to leave South Korea later this month to testify before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, as the committee is investigating what it has called South Korea's "discriminatory targeting" of American companies.

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