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Chairman Kim Beom-su, the founder of Kakao, who has been criticized for violating alley commercial rights, will be summoned to the National Audit Office next month. Won-sik Hong, chairman of Namyang Dairy, who caused controversy over the Bulgaris incident, also stands at the testimony of the National Assembly.
This is reporter Kang Cheong-wan.
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National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee selected Kim Beom-soo, chairman of the Kakao Board of Directors, as a witness for the next month's state audit.
The six members, the largest number of members in the Political Affairs Committee, applied for Chairman Kim as a witness.
As criticism continued, such as infringement of alley commercial rights, Kakao announced a win-win plan the day before (14th) and started to evolve.
[Song Yeong-gil/CEO of the Democratic Party (Yesterday): (Kakao) is growing in size due to reckless business expansion, invading alleyways, and is being accused of violating the monopoly and separation of money and industry.]
Namyang Dairy Chairman Hong Won-sik also suffered damage to agency owners and shareholders It was adopted as a witness of the National Assembly on the grounds that he gave
Chairman Hong, who overturned his promise to sell the company after the so-called 'Bulgaris Incident', caused another scandal when a recording instructing victims of unfair personnel management in the company was reported to SBS.
[Hong Won-sik / Chairman of Namyang Dairy Products (SBS acquisition transcript): Make them work hard, put invisible, very strong pressure, so I can't stand it now.]
Coupang CEO Kang Seung-seung, who was accused of unfair conduct on the online platform, Nexon Korea CEO Kim Jeong-ju, who was suspected of manipulating game item probability, and Merge Plus CEO Kwon Nam-hee, who had to stop refunding points, also stood on the witness stand.
(Video coverage: Kim Seung-tae, video editing: Choi Jin-hwa)