South Korean Lawmakers Condemn US Pressure Over Coupang Probe

South Korean lawmakers protested what they described as US political pressure over a legal case involving Coupang Inc., with about 90 legislators planning to deliver a formal complaint to the US ambassador.

Lawmakers, including Park Hongbae from the ruling Democratic Party, said they would deliver a protest letter to the US envoy in Seoul, warning that attempts to influence legal proceedings in South Korea would amount to an infringement on judicial sovereignty.

“The investigation and adjudication of alleged criminal conduct are the exclusive authority of a sovereign state,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter Tuesday, adding that such processes ...