Hong Beom-sik (홍범식), chief executive of LG Uplus, has been additionally selected as a witness for a parliamentary audit by the National Assembly’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee.
At a plenary meeting on Oct. 15, the committee passed a motion to request the attendance of five witnesses and three reference witnesses for the audit.
Along with Hong, Google Korea President Koo Yoon (윤구), X Korea CEO Chang-seop Shin (신창섭) and Meta Korea Vice President Wook Hur (허욱) will attend the audit on Oct. 22. LG Uplus Chief Information Security Officer Kwan-hee Hong (홍관희) is set to attend the audit on Oct. 23.
Yoon and Shin are expected to be questioned about issues including digital sex crimes, while Hur and LG Uplus executives are expected to be questioned about a personal data infringement incident.
The three reference witnesses asked to attend include Jin-soo Kim (김진수), a senior researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Hae-kook Lee (이해국), a professor at the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, and Kyung-jin Choi (최경진), president of the Korean Society of Artificial Intelligence Law.
An LG Uplus official said, "We are checking" when asked whether Hong will actually attend the audit.
Jin-ho Lee
jhlee26@d-today.co.kr