1. The plaintiff's claim is dismissed.

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

1. Details of the disposition;

A. On October 2009, the Plaintiff entered the Republic of Korea with the status of stay on October 20, 2009 (E9-2) and applied for refugee recognition to the Defendant on February 3, 2015.

B. On March 11, 2015, the Defendant rendered a decision on the recognition of refugee status (hereinafter “instant disposition”) on the ground that the Plaintiff’s assertion does not constitute a case of “a well-founded fear of persecution” as a requirement for refugee status under Article 1 of the Convention on the Status of Refugees and Article 1 of the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.

C. The Plaintiff, who is dissatisfied with the instant disposition, filed an objection with the Minister of Justice on March 19, 2015, but rendered a final decision to dismiss the Plaintiff’s application on February 24, 2017.

[Ground of recognition] Facts without dispute, Gap evidence 1, 2, Eul evidence 1 to 3, the purport of the whole pleadings

2. Whether the instant disposition is lawful

A. The Plaintiff’s assertion was threatened by the Plaintiff, around 2012, to leave from the Republic of Korea as a free party member of the Philippines, that the Plaintiff suffered assault and injury from the coercion to prevent the Plaintiff from soliciting party members.

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). Fully considering the following circumstances acknowledged by comprehensively taking account of the aforementioned evidence and the purport of the entire arguments, the evidence and arguments submitted by the Plaintiff are considered.