A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for up to six months.

However, the execution of the above punishment shall be suspended for one year from the date this judgment becomes final and conclusive.

Punishment of the crime

The defendant was elected as C/Gun candidate in the nationwide local election on June 4, 2014.

No person shall publish any false information about a candidate, his/her spouse, lineal ascendant or descendant, or sibling, in a manner unfavorable to the candidate through a speech, broadcast, newspaper, communication, magazine, poster, propaganda document, or other means, with the intention of prohibiting him/her from being elected.

1. On May 15, 2014, at around 16:39, the Defendant sent a text message to G’s cell phone (H) with a cell phone for the purpose of preventing F, who was going to be a candidate for C/Gun at the time, from being elected in the Defendant’s residence located in Vietnam, and then sent the same text message to 41 persons around that time, including, but not limited to, “F’s cell phone, during the police investigation to ensure the spraying of money bags and the screen screen.”

However, in fact, there was no dynamic image that had been taken from the F on the face of spraying plastic bags on the part of the F, and there was no f on the part of F during the police investigation.

As a result, the Defendant published false information about F with the intention of preventing F from being elected by CF of the 6th nationwide local election.

2. On May 25, 2014, at around 12:07, the Defendant sent the same text message to 39 persons around that time, including, but not limited to, sending a text message to I, who was appointed and worked as the head of the direct office of a Si/Gun in the case where F was in office as a branch of G’s mobile phone (H) by using a mobile phone, for the purpose of preventing F from being elected in the Defendant’s residence located in Vietnam.

However, there was no fact that 50,000 won was found in cash at the office of the I public service center.

The defendant, therefore, was 6.