A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for six months.

Punishment of the crime

On October 16, 2018, the Defendant received KRW 100,000 from “C” located on the second floor B in Gwangjin-gu Seoul Special Metropolitan City, and had female employees E perform a similar act against D.

Accordingly, the defendant committed commercial sex acts such as arranging commercial sex acts.

Summary of Evidence

1. Defendant's legal statement;

1. Each police suspect interrogation protocol of E or D;

1. Application of the Acts and subordinate statutes to the control photographs of sexual traffic establishments and to the closure photographs of each control image;

1. Grounds for sentencing under Article 19 (2) 1 of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Arranging Sexual Traffic, Etc. concerning facts constituting an offense and the punishment;

1. Imprisonment with prison labor for not more than seven years;

2. The scope of the recommended punishment according to the sentencing guidelines (the determination of types of punishment) and the scope of the recommended punishment according to the sentencing guidelines for the crimes of sexual traffic subject to not less than 19 years of age, the brokerage, etc. of sexual traffic, etc.

3. The Defendant was already punished four times for the same kind of crime only after 2015, and in particular, on September 20, 2018, sentenced to imprisonment for six months and two years of suspension of execution and became final and conclusive around that time. The Defendant committed the instant crime even before the lapse of the subsequent month, and the nature and circumstances of the relevant crime are very poor.

In full view of the above circumstances and the size of the instant sexual traffic business establishment and the details of the crime, it is inevitable to punish the Defendant with severe penalty corresponding to his/her liability.

However, the circumstances favorable to the defendant, such as the fact that the defendant recognized the crime of this case and reflects his mistake, and that the defendant would not engage in the same kind of crime again after closing the business of this case around April 19, 2019, shall also be considered, and the age, character, environment, health conditions, family relationship, circumstance of the crime, family relationship, etc. of this case.