A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for one year.

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 was the head of editing and reporters of the “C Union” in B, and was the 7th anniversary of June 13, 2018, when D, who was working for the president of the “C Union” in the nationwide local election of Dong-si, was under his/her control and was released as a candidate for the E market.

1. No false information shall be published with respect to a candidate, his/her spouse, lineal ascendant or descendant, or sibling, in a manner unfavorable to the candidate by means of a speech, broadcast, newspaper, communications, magazine, poster, propaganda document, or any other means, with the intention of preventing him/her from being elected in the post of an article on June 1, 2018

Around August 29, 2017, F (at that time, E City Council member) who was seeking to be a candidate for the E market in the 7th nationwide election of Dong-si local government, which was implemented on June 13, 2018, had an interview with H in relation to “G closed issues,” and H around August 30, 2017, posted a banner (hereinafter “instant banner”) stating “G closed signature to close the eroposity,” stating “F was sent with the erosity of the erosity, E City Council member J, F, and F Compensation,” and thereafter, F, who was a candidate for the E political market, was a candidate for the E market candidate for the instant banner at the E market candidate’s debate held on June 14:00, 2018, to the effect that “I did not answer the questions about the candidates for the instant banner.”

At around 16:12 on the same day, the Defendant prepared and posted an article containing the following: (a) “F candidate denies posting a banner at a broadcasting debate under the title “L “F candidate’s will” on the Internet homepage, which is the Internet media operated by the “C Cooperatives”; and (b) “H demanded “H to post a banner at a broadcasting debate; (c) the F Candidate was able to post a banner on his own money; and (d) the H Secretariat (M) passed the banner.”

However, in fact, the F candidate stated that he was not only did not have the instant banner on his own money, but also that M, the H secretariat, “F candidate, her own money, her bannered.”