A. The Plaintiff is a church created by C around 1962, and as a doctrine, the Plaintiff assumes that “C” was a natural mother, believed “D” as a natural mother, observe Saturdays as an known day, and observe the season, such as wintering, etc.

Since the death of C around 1985, E is a general meeting leader and continues to perform missionary activities.

B. The Defendant, as a member of the FSC, had been engaged in the research of this part of the FSC and the activities pointing out contradictions in this part of the doctrine. From 1997, the Defendant decided the Plaintiff as an interest group and announced the “G”, “H”, etc. that criticizes the Plaintiff.

C. At around 03:45 on June 5, 1999, a fire occurred on the second floor of the Jungjin-gu Seoul Special Metropolitan City I operated by the Defendant. 2) On June 5, 1999, the Defendant stated that “The place where the fire was reported most recently, is the Plaintiff church and the KM religion organization, and it is presumed that there was a recent intimidation telephone, and that there was a abortion case, etc.” to the reporters of the broadcasting station where the fire was reported around 11:20 on June 5, 199.

3) On July 6, 1999, the Plaintiff’s new 356 persons filed a complaint against the Defendant as defamation. On October 13, 1999, the Jeonju District Court notified the Defendant of a summary order of KRW 1,000,000 (No. 99Da12118). Accordingly, the Defendant requested formal trial against the above summary order. The Jeonju District Court found the Defendant guilty of defamation charges by publicly alleging false facts and sentenced KRW 1,00,000 (No. 200Da733), but the Jeonju District Court reversed the judgment of the first instance court and suspended the sentence of KRW 50,000 on the grounds of unfair sentencing.