Defendant shall be punished by a fine of KRW 10,000,000.

When the defendant does not pay the above fine, 100,000 won.

Punishment of the crime

On April 11, 2019, the Defendant was sentenced to imprisonment with labor for a crime, such as fraud, at the Seoul Central District Court on April 11, 201, and the judgment became final and conclusive on April 16, 2019.

"2018 High Court Decision 2779"

1. Defendant A is a person operating an Internet shopping mall, B is an advertising agent C, and D is a staff member of C.

“E” is a kind of search ranking manipulation program that enables a specific key and web site to be automatically visited on the relevant block and web site through the creation of IP address, er-ags change, and grsh deletion process, etc. when entering the address of a specific key and web site, thereby increasing the search ranking by exposing false character information on the search system of portal site.

B paid 150,000 won per month to F, a seller of the said “E”, and purchased 18 programs, and the Defendant and B and D (hereinafter referred to as the “Defendant, etc.”) entered 18 mobile phone numbers and passwords from March 1, 2016 to May 3, 2016, using 18 mobile phone numbers in the Seoul Gangnam-gu C office from March 1, 2016 to enter the address, etc. of a specific key and website.

Through this, the facts of the Defendant, etc. were entered by an unspecified user into a key clock, such as the “clock place” and the “clicking,” etc., and, as a result of the search, there was no fact that the Defendant, etc. repeatedly changed the IP address, and as if multiple users visited the said clocks, etc. over 606,621 times, the Defendant, etc. had the H search system recognize the fact that there was a false visit to the said clocks, etc., and caused the relevant public relations clicks, etc. to be higher than the search order.