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1. All appeals by the Defendants are dismissed.
2. The costs of lawsuit are assessed against the Defendants.
Purport of claim and appeal
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Reasons
1. Basic facts
A. The Plaintiff is a person acting as a representative in D, a non-governmental organization, and Defendant B Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Defendant Company”) is a press organization that operates Internet news, and Defendant C is a director general of E editing as employees of Defendant C.
B. On October 2014, F had an interview with Defendant C, “F had a large number of cases of massive signature manipulations occurred at the signature movement site of 10 million won,” and “I had a large number of signature manipulations at the National Assembly G 2008 and the national representatives of Dokdo organizations to newly create G, and attached it to the petition by appropriating the minutes prepared by Defendant C’s article of this case (hereinafter “the article of this case”).” The article of this case should be inserted into the article of this case, “F had a large number of cases of signature manipulations at the signature movement site of 10 million won,” and the article of this case was submitted as attached to the second petition of the National Assembly.
C. F was issued a summary order of KRW 3 million (Seoul District Court Decision 2016DaDa155100, Apr. 20, 2016) on April 20, 2016 as a crime of defamation against the Plaintiff through an interview with the above contents in the instant article, and in the ordinary proceedings, the F did not submit any supporting materials to the effect that the Plaintiff fabricated the Plaintiff’s signature, and it appears that the Plaintiff was attached to the petition by stealing the minutes, and that the Plaintiff was also false, and that the F did not have any ground to dismiss the illegality of the petition, on August 22, 2017, on the ground that the F was sentenced to a fine of KRW 3 million on August 22, 2017 (Seoul District Court Decision 2016DaGa210, Daegu District Court Decision 2017No3930, Mar. 23, 2018). The appeal against this was dismissed on January 12, 2018 (Seoul District Court Decision 2017No3930, Mar. 29, 298).