Costs of lawsuit shall be borne by the defendant.

On February 25, 2016, Plaintiff A was appointed as a professor or assistant professor at D University and served until now. Plaintiff B was appointed as an assistant professor at the aforementioned department on February 1, 2005 and served until now on April 1, 2014. Plaintiff C was appointed as an assistant professor at the above department on October 1, 2001 and served as Plaintiff C was promoted to a professor on October 1, 201.

From April 23, 2018 to May 4, 2018, the Ministry of Education conducted a comprehensive audit of D University. On January 9, 2019, the Ministry of Education demanded the defendant to take disciplinary action against the plaintiffs, and to notify the competent court of administrative fines of the violation of the Act on the Prohibition of Improper Solicitation and Graft, etc. (Improper Solicitation and Graft).

On May 9, 2019, the General Disciplinary Committee on D University Public Educational Officials decided to impose a surcharge of KRW 265,00 on Plaintiff A and B for each of the grounds that the Plaintiffs violated Articles 56 (Duty of Good Faith), 61 (Duty of Integrity) and 63 (Duty of Integrity) of the State Public Officials Act for the following reasons, and impose a surcharge of KRW 1 month of reduction of pay and surcharge of KRW 147,00 on Plaintiff C, respectively, and notify the Defendant on the 14th of the same month, and the Defendant issued the result of the above disciplinary action and surcharge of KRW 147,00 to the Plaintiffs on the 22th of the same month.

According to Article 49 of the D University School Regulations, the extracurricular education shall be planned to increase the effects of the education, and the extracurricular education shall be based on the school schedule, and the non-projected extracurricular education shall be subject to the approval of the president two weeks before the implementation of the non-projected extracurricular education, while Plaintiff A shall obtain the approval of the president from December 1, 2017 to December 3, 2017; from December 21, 2016 to December 24, 2016; and Plaintiff B from December 1, 2017 to December 3, 2017; and from December 1, 2017 to December 20, 2015 to December 20, 2015 to December 17, 2015; and Plaintiff C shall not obtain the approval of the president’s training plan without the approval of the president’s respective extracurricular education plan from December 17, 2015 to December 20, 2015.

(hereinafter referred to as "grounds for disciplinary action").