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Defendant shall be punished by a fine of KRW 10,000,000.
When the defendant does not pay the above fine, 100,000 won.
Reasons
Punishment of the crime
From November 9, 2016 to July 8, 2017, the Defendant worked in the victim Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “victim Co., Ltd.”) located in Yeongdeungpo-gu (hereinafter referred to as “damage Co., Ltd.”) and took charge of the production and export of functional eco-friendly paint. From July 25, 2017, the Defendant operated “Co. E” in the wife population D and manufactured and sold eco-friendly paint, etc.
Around November 9, 2016, the Defendant prepared a written oath that he/she does not divulge confidential information he/she became aware of in the course of his/her duties to the damaged company, and thus, he/she shall not leak major asset and data for business use stored in the storage device, etc. for the victimized company. When he/she is in office, he/she shall keep confidential information and return all storage devices on which major material and data for business use of the victimized company are recorded at the time of his/her retirement. In cases where he/she fails to return information, he/she shall destroy them without fail to do so in light of the duty to incidental to the employment contract or the good faith principle.
1. On January 23, 2017, at around 21:36, the Defendant, while working in the office of the victimized company, stored the Defendant’s personal cloud account (G) with a file for the production and distribution of the paint products, which is a major asset for the business of the victimized company, as a result of the need for business operations.
The aforementioned file for manufacturing costs stored by the Defendant consists of the production costs of products that caused one billion won annual sales as of 2017. As such, it includes manufacturing costs that describe the entire composition and content of “H” of the products sold from around 2001 after independently researching and developing the products through multiple mistakes for about four years from the damaged company and then constituting 70% of the total sales of the victimized company.