Fourteen Korean government agencies are targeting Coupang in what critics say is a disproportionate response to a recent data breach.

The ruling against Kim Keon Hee comes amid a series of trials over the 2024 martial law order by her husband, ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, and related scandals involving the couple.

Spurred by government policies and the global A.I. boom, the market’s value has jumped by hundreds of billions of dollars. Individual investors have piled in.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 months in prison for corruption, as her husband awaits a verdict on a high-stakes rebellion charge that could result in the death penalty or life imprisonment.

South Korea will accelerate efforts to boost housing supply in the Greater Seoul area, broadening its response to a yearlong rally in apartment prices after a raft of earlier measures to curb speculative demand proved insufficient.