A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than eight months.

except that the execution of the above punishment shall be suspended for two years from the date this judgment becomes final and conclusive.

Punishment of the crime

The Defendant, around September 5, 2007, was employed by the victim E Co., Ltd. as a director in the business of manufacturing motor vehicle parts and ship parts located in Ulsan-guD and was promoted to the managing director around 2010. On the other hand, the Defendant was retired on December 31, 2014.

1. He/she shall not acquire or use trade secrets or divulge them to a third party for the purpose of obtaining unjust profits or inflicting damage on the owner of trade secrets in violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act;

The victim company’s “E-Security Book.xls” information is a management information on costs calculated through the manufacturing cost of the product. The “F comparison table.xls” information is a technical information on standard specifications, and is an important confidential information that could undermine the competitiveness of G’s external export if leaked to GM Korea, which is a competitor of G, or a competitor of Samsung Motor Vehicle, etc., the original business entity.

Accordingly, in order to prevent the leakage of the above information, the victim company introduced the document security system of "H" to encrypted and manage all documents produced in the company, and made them accessible to the outside, and made them available to the outside, and made them available to the outside. When leaked, all of the company computers set a password and output in the company, all of the documents which output in the company show the IP address, the printing person's name, the printing date, etc. of the relevant computer, and kept and managed the above information as confidential by installing CCTV inside the office through the private guard company and controlling the outside person's access for 24 hours.

The Defendant, as an executive director of the victim company, prepared a labor contract stating that “I will not provide information received from the company to a third party without written consent.”