SEOUL: South Korea has fined Chinese e-commerce giant Temu nearly US$1 million for illegally transferring Korean users' personal information to China and other countries, a data protection watchdog said Thursday (May 15). Chinese platforms such as Shein, Temu and AliExpress have skyrocketed in global popularity in recent years, offering a vast selection of products at stunningly low prices that have helped them take on United States titan Amazon. Temu outsources and stores users' data with