1. All of the plaintiffs' claims are dismissed.

2. The costs of lawsuit are assessed against the plaintiffs.

Details of the disposition

Plaintiff

A Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the “Plaintiff Co., Ltd.”) is a corporation incorporated on July 28, 2008 for the purpose of engineering activities under the Engineering Technology Promotion Act, the responsibility supervision and design supervision under the Construction Technology Management Act, the regional and urban planning research, survey, design, supervision, public survey, aerial photography, technical services concerning the production of maps, etc., and the Plaintiff Co., Ltd is the Plaintiff Co., Ltd.’s internal director.

Plaintiff

Around August 2015, a company decided to take charge of the fourth-six years of research and development projects “C” (total research period from August 20, 2012 to December 19, 2018; hereinafter “instant research and development projects”) and entered into an agreement with the Korea Institute of Marine Science and Technology Promotion as a specialized institution, the Korea Institute of Marine Science and Technology as a specialized research institute, the Korea Institute of Marine Science and Technology as a specialized research institute, the Plaintiff Company as a senior research institute, the Korea Institute of Marine Science and Technology as a senior research institute, the Plaintiff Company as a senior research institute, and the Plaintiff B as a senior research manager, on September 21, 2015, with respect to research projects in the fourth year (research period from August 20, 2015 to April 30, 2016).

(hereinafter “instant Convention”). On April 27, 2016, the Korea Institute of Marine Science and Technology prepared a written confirmation that the Plaintiff Company used KRW 492,059,331 (hereinafter “instant confirmation”) for the following purposes of use by conducting on-site research and development projects of the instant research and development project from Plaintiff B, Vice President E of the Plaintiff Company, and F of the Plaintiff Company’s employees:

① From August 20, 2015 to April 27, 2016, Plaintiff Company: (a) while performing research and development as a cooperative research institute for the instant research and development task, from November 2, 2015 to March 24, 2016, transferred KRW 298,145,000 from the research and development fund account (enterprise G) of the said research and development task to the corporate account (corporate bank H) for eight times; and (b) during two times, the Plaintiff Company confirmed that KRW 20,00,000 was withdrawn in cash. Third, until now.