Defendants shall be punished by a fine of two million won.

The Defendants did not pay each of the above fines.

Punishment of the crime

Any person who intends to engage in the international marriage brokerage business shall register with the head of Si/Gun/Gu having jurisdiction over the area where he is to establish a brokerage office.

On July 23, 2013, the Defendants, while engaging in the international marriage brokerage business under the name of “E” in Seo-gu, Young-gu, Chungcheongnam-gu, and reported the closure of business, published an advertisement to the effect that the Defendants, without registering the international marriage brokerage business, are mediating international marriage with foreigners of nationality, such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China, in the said E office without registering the international marriage brokerage business, and received KRW 10 million in total on two occasions as the brokerage payment, from G to be married with foreign women on September 9, 2013.

Accordingly, Defendants were engaged in international marriage brokerage business without being registered in collusion.

Summary of Evidence

1. Defendants’ respective legal statements

1. Each police interrogation protocol against the Defendants

1. Each police statement made to H, G, and I;

1. Investigation report (to attach details of passbook transactions, etc.); and

1. Acceptance of a report on cessation of the marriage brokerage business and an application for change of the employee of the international marriage brokerage business;

1. International marriage brokerage certificate;

1. Application of Acts and subordinate statutes to the F, contract, marriage hall, agreement on marriage, agreement on recognition of international marriage and agreement on marriage;

1. Article 26 (1) 2 and Article 4 (1) of the Marriage Brokers Business Management Act and Article 30 of the Criminal Act concerning criminal facts;

1. Articles 70 (1) and 69 (2) of the Criminal Act for the detention of a workhouse;

1. The following circumstances that can be acknowledged by the evidence duly examined by this court under Article 334(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act, namely, Defendant B, along with Defendant A, engaged in the international marriage brokerage business with the trade name of “E” on the Cheongju-si D and the 3rd floor of Chungcheongnam-si, Chungcheongnam-gu, Cheongju-si, and became impossible to meet the capital requirement.