1. The Defendant’s KRW 7,00,000 as well as the annual rate of KRW 5% from March 7, 2017 to August 8, 2018 to the Plaintiff.

1. Basic facts

A. The Plaintiff is a person operating “stock company D” that runs the business of publishing and selling newspapers in Spocheon City C, and the Defendant is the publishing and editor of “F” online newspaper companies in Spocheon City E.

B. On March 7, 2017, the Defendant posted an article and a photograph (hereinafter “instant article”) in the same title as “G” written by the Defendant on the said F website as “G,” and the key contents are as follows.

Given that AC, the representative of Macheon-gu press organization, is leaked out of the body of a woman before three years, there is controversy over social responsibility and morality as a journalist.

(중략) 또 사진은 당시 A씨가 H씨와의 내연 관계가 깨진 후 변심으로 해꼬지를 할 것을 대비해 촬영 후 보관해 뒀을 것이란 뒷얘기가 무성하다.

Even if it is a private relationship, it is the negative view that the parties who are aware of the social responsibility as a journalist, who have a family, affix a photograph, and are in an inappropriate relationship.

As a journalist who has been operating a local newspaper in Macheon for several years, a photograph photographer who has recently held an I event.

(B)

C. On March 8, 2017, “J” and “K”, a local newspaper company other than F, also drafted an article that cited the pictures and contents of the instant article as they are, and posted it on the Internet website.

The plaintiff filed a complaint with the purport that the defendant who prepared and posted the article of this case prejudices the plaintiff's reputation, and the defendant was issued a summary order of KRW 5,000,000 (Korean Government District Court Decision 2017 High Court Decision 6268), and the defendant filed a request for formal trial with respect to the above summary order, but filed a request for formal trial, but filed a final appeal again (Korean Government District Court Decision 2017 High Court Decision 1379) on August 31, 2017.

[Ground of recognition] There is no dispute.