Coupang Files Criminal Complaint Against Former Minnochoeng Legal Director Kwon Young-guk

Coupang Countermeasure Committee Denies Blacklist Allegations
"Committee Suspected of Manipulating Personnel Evaluation Data"

Coupang Fulfillment Service (CFS) will file a criminal complaint against Kwon Young-guk, the head of the legal office of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and representative of the Coupang Countermeasures Committee, on the 15th.

The day before, the Coupang Countermeasures Committee (a committee for the healthy labor and human rights of Coupang workers) held a press conference on legal action regarding the alleged Coupang blacklist, revealing part of an Excel file containing personal information of 16,450 people and announced plans to file a collective lawsuit and claim damages against Coupang. At that time, the committee claimed, "It appears to have been created for the purpose of excluding people from employment, and if it was actually used to restrict hiring, it would violate the Labor Standards Act, the Personal Information Protection Act, and other laws."

Attorney Kwon Young-guk is speaking at the legal response press conference regarding the Coupang blacklist allegations on the 14th.
[Photo by Coupang Newsroom]

However, Coupang stated that the materials presented by the Coupang Countermeasures Committee were fabricated. Coupang emphasized, "Although expressions such as 'Daegu Center' do not exist in the CFS personnel evaluation data, lawyer Kwon Young-guk and others are making false claims that CFS created a blacklist using secret codes," and added, "Even though there is no 'union title' field, lawyer Kwon arbitrarily added this item."

Coupang also stated that lawyer Kwon falsely claimed that Coupang systematically operated comment squads to manipulate public opinion. Coupang said, "We will hold former KCTU legal office head Kwon Young-guk accountable through a criminal complaint for distributing fabricated materials for political purposes and disparaging even common-sense public opinion."

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