Defendants shall be punished by imprisonment for one year and two months.

However, it is against the Defendants for two years from the date this judgment became final and conclusive.

Punishment of the crime

Defendants are people engaged in legal counseling, loan brokerage, etc. in their trade names.

No one shall knowingly receive any disclosed personal information for profit or for any other wrongful purpose, and arrange legal affairs in return for receiving or promising to receive money and valuables, other than attorneys-at-law.

Nevertheless, the Defendants purchased personal information DB related to the loan and sent text messages to guide individual rehabilitation using the personal information, and if the applicants contact the Defendants, the Defendants provided the personal information of the applicants to the certified judicial scrivener and offered the personal rehabilitation case to the certified judicial scrivener and conspired to receive the introduction fees in return.

Accordingly, around January 7, 2014, the Defendants received approximately 20,00 personal information files (name, resident registration number, telephone number, address) related to loans, such as “120.xlsx, 3712.xlsx, 3052.xlsx,” and “1726.xlsx,” from August 20, 2012 to February 6, 2014, by paying a total amount of KRW 8,637,00 from August 20, 2012 to February 6, 2014 from the G e-mail account used by Defendant B to the H e-mail account used by Defendant B.

In addition, the Defendants sent a large quantity of text messages using personal information received from the above F and other personal information sales, and then provide K with the personal information of the applicant for personal rehabilitation who reported and contacted the text messages.