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Tech fines in South Korea

Every major technology penalty in this directory issued in South Korea, sorted by size. Amounts are shown in their original currency with a USD approximation, alongside the regulator and current appeal status.

4 penalties · ≈ $688M imposed

4 penalties

Coupang · 2026

Coupang fined KRW 624.7B, Korea's largest privacy sanction

Under appeal

The PIPC found that a 2025 breach at Coupang, carried out by a former employee using authentication signing keys the company had not revoked, stemmed from basic security failures rather than sophisticated hacking, and that Coupang notified it late. Separately, it found that Coupang collected the online behaviour of about 11.17 million users on other websites and apps without consent.

PIPC · South Korea₩624.7B≈ $457M

Google · Android · 2021

KFTC fines Google KRW 207B over Android restrictions

Final

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined Google for blocking device makers from using customised (forked) versions of Android.

KFTC · South Korea₩207.4B≈ $177M

KT · 2026

KT fined KRW 53.979B over a rogue femtocell data breach

Not yet final

South Korea's PIPC found that hackers extracted authentication credentials from KT's femtocells, loaded them into rogue femtocells and used them to reach KT's network, intercepting traffic between subscribers' phones and the network from October 2024 to September 2025. The commission held that KT owned and operated the femtocells and failed to apply baseline access controls to its internal network.

PIPC · South Korea₩54B≈ $39M

Meta · 2024

PIPC fines Meta KRW 21.6B over sensitive-data collection

Final

South Korea's PIPC fined Meta for collecting sensitive data, including religion, political views, and sexual orientation, on roughly 980,000 users for advertising without consent.

PIPC · South Korea₩21.6B≈ $15M