2. The costs of lawsuit shall be borne by the Plaintiff.

A. On May 17, 2016, the Plaintiff, as a Egypt nationality, entered the Republic of Korea with tourism Tong (B-2) sojourn status on May 17, 2016, and applied for refugee status to the Defendant on May 27, 2016.

B. On February 13, 2017, the Defendant rendered a decision on the recognition of refugee status (hereinafter “instant disposition”) to the Plaintiff on the ground that the Plaintiff’s assertion does not constitute a case of “a well-founded fear that would be subject to persecution” as a requirement of refugee under Article 1 of the Convention on the Status of Refugees and Article 1 of the Protocol on the Status of Refugees.

C. On March 17, 2017, the Plaintiff was notified of the instant disposition and filed an objection with the Minister of Justice on April 3, 2017, but the said objection was dismissed on July 18, 2017.

[Reasons for Recognition] Facts without dispute, Gap 3, 4 evidence, Eul 1 and 2 evidence, and the purport of the whole pleadings

2. Whether the instant disposition is lawful

A. The Plaintiff’s argument that the Plaintiff’s punishment was disputed as a monetary issue, and the victim’s bereaved families are threatening to kill the Plaintiff to multiple persons.

Therefore, the defendant's disposition of this case which did not recognize the plaintiff as a refugee despite high possibility that the plaintiff would be subject to gambling when he returns to the country of nationality is illegal.

B. The term “refugee” refers to a foreigner who is unable or does not want to be protected by the country of nationality due to well-founded fear to recognize that he/she may be injured on the grounds of race, religion, nationality, status as a member of a particular social group, or political opinion, or a stateless foreigner who, owing to such fear, is unable to return to or does not want to return to the country in which he/she resided before entering the Republic of Korea.

(Article 2 Subparag. 1 of the Refugee Act). However, even if the Plaintiff’s assertion is acknowledged, the threat of the Plaintiff’s assertion is “human race, religion, nationality, status as a member of a specific social group or political opinion.”