"Perjury Before National Assembly" Former Coupang Korea Head Questioned by Police: "I Will Sincerely Cooperate"

[Financial News] Park Dae-jun, the former head of Coupang Korea who was accused of perjury at a parliamentary hearing on the Coupang incident held at the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea last year, has appeared before the police.
The Anti-Corruption Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is questioning Park on the morning of the 3rd as a suspect on charges including perjury under the Act on Testimony and Appraisal before the National Assembly. Park arrived at the SMPA’s Mapo office at around 9:59 a.m. and told reporters, "I will sincerely cooperate with the investigation," before heading to the interrogation room. He did not answer questions about whether he admits to perjury before the National Assembly, conversations before and after the hearing, or allegations that he ordered the concealment of a death from overwork.
Park appeared as a witness at the National Assembly’s joint parliamentary hearing on the Coupang incident on December 30–31 last year, where he testified on issues including a personal data leak and allegations that Coupang concealed the death from overwork and industrial accident of logistics center worker Jang Deok-jun. During the hearing, he responded "I don’t remember" to questions about the alleged cover-up of the death from overwork, drawing sharp criticism from Choi Min-hee, chair of the National Assembly Committee on Science, ICT and Future Planning.
After the hearing, the National Assembly Committee on Science, ICT and Future Planning resolved to file a criminal complaint against Park and six other current and former executives, including Harold Rogers, acting head of Coupang Korea, on charges of violating the Act on Testimony and Appraisal before the National Assembly.
Earlier, on the 8th of last month, Park appeared before police as a reference witness in connection with allegations of a "lunch meeting" between independent lawmaker Kim Byung-ki and Coupang’s management. Kim is under investigation over suspicions that, ahead of last year’s Parliamentary Inspection of the Administration in September, he had an expensive lunch with Park and other senior Coupang executives and then demanded that Coupang disadvantage a former aide who had moved to the company.
425_sama@fnnews.com Reporter Choi Seung-han Reporter