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Koreas antitrust watchdog weighs naming Coupangs Kim as group head
Korea's antitrust watchdog weighs naming Coupang's Kim as group head SEOUL, April 20 (AJP) - South Korea's antitrust regulator is poised to decide as early as next week whether to name Coupang founder Bom Kim as the e-commerce group's controlling shareholder, a shift that would bring the U.S. citizen under the country's toughest corporate disclosure and anti-self-dealing rules for the first time. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) is in the final stages of reviewing whether to replace the Coupang corporate entity with Kim, chairman of April 20, 2026