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US-based ‘Amazon of South Korea’ forced to recover laptop from bottom of Chinese river in bizarre data privacy clampdown: report

  • Thomas Barrabi--New York Post
  • published date: 2026-07-01 13:12:37 UTC

A Coupang rep traveled to Shanghai on Dec. 17 to meet with the suspect and his lawyer, who handed over a desktop PC, four hard drives and copies, a graphics card and a signed confession. But the next day, the NIS told Coupang it was still required to recover …

South Korea’s government allegedly forced a US web retailer to carry out a bizarre and risky plot to recover a stolen laptop from the bottom of a river in China part of a high-level data-privacy clam… [+8469 chars]