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1. Defendant A and C are punished by a fine of seven million won, by a fine of three million won, by a fine of three million won, D, E, F, and G.
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Punishment of the crime
1. Defendant A and BJ developed a related search ranking manipulation program and provided K with the Internet search advertising company “L”, and the Defendants conspired to operate the “L” as an employee and to operate the said program in return for money from the customer or advertising company wishing to run the said program and to manipulate the order of access by using the NA-related search ranking.
K around January 2017 to April 2018; Defendant A, around April 2017 to April 2018; Defendant B, around September 2017 to April 2018; and Defendant B, around April 2018, at Gangnam-gu Seoul building, Gangnam-gu N apartment, Seoul, No. 1325; Defendant N apartment, 114 Dong-14 Dong 1004, opened and connected a site (O) on the NE and opened a search language (on the one hand) related to the search language (on the one hand) and connected to the NE site.
J around January 2017 to April 2018, around the Gangnam-gu P Apartment, Seoul, 209 Dong 2104, etc., provided several means, such as expanding the interval of search lines (on the search key) entry time with access to the above site, the program was operated in various ways.
The Defendants, in collusion with K and J on September 28, 201, did not have been exposed to the search terms “R” as a result of the search by the NNV users of Q on September 28, 2017. However, the Defendants sent 1,448 false character information to the NV search system using the search ranking manipulation program.
The NNA search system had users search " Q" and had users recognize the statistical data as being exposed to the higher ranking by the relevant search.
In addition, Defendant A is a ranking manipulation as follows: (a) from April 20, 2017 to April 30, 2018; (b) 4,524,175 false character information, such as a list of crimes (1), and (c) Defendant B, from September 28, 2017 to April 30, 2018.