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1. The judgment of the first instance, including the conjunctive claim added by this court, shall be modified as follows:
Reasons
1. Basic facts
A. The Plaintiffs are current or past agents of Q Q Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “ Q”).
The defendant is a non-corporate body formed by 109 former and present agency owners of Q, including the plaintiffs, for the recovery of damages suffered by agents due to unfair trade practices, such as coercion to purchase products from its affiliates.
B. On July 26, 2013, the Defendant and Q entered into an annexed agreement to Q fair and mutually agreed to eradicate unfair trade practices against agents belonging to Q Q and Q, establish a mutually beneficial committee to protect the agency environment, and enter into a compensation arbitration organization to pay compensation to the Defendant’s agents who suffered damages from the existing unfair trade practices. (ii) on July 26, 2013, the Defendant and Q entered into an annexed agreement in addition to the above mutually agreed agreement, and Q paid KRW 3 billion to the Defendant pursuant to Article 2 of the annexed agreement.
3) Around May 2014, Q agreed to pay the Defendant an additional amount of KRW 1 billion other than KRW 3 billion of the above win-win fund. At that time, Q paid KRW 1 billion to the Defendant. (c) Around that time, the Defendant held a general meeting resolution on the agenda for distribution of the win-win fund (i.e., a general meeting resolution on the agenda for distribution of the win-win fund) on January 11, 2014 and July 19, 2014, and adopted a resolution with the consent of a majority of the members present in relation to the method of distributing the win-win fund received from Q to the total amount of KRW 4 billion.
The amount of KRW 2 billion out of KRW 4 billion shall be distributed to members in the same proportion.
The remaining KRW 2 billion shall be determined by the Defendant’s Operation Fund, outside organization contributions, arbitrator’s fees, and attorney’s fees, and the remainder shall be paid as a merit reward after going through the evaluation according to the achievements of the Defendant’s members.
The defendant.