The defendant's appeal is dismissed.

The summary of the grounds for appeal (misunderstanding of facts or misapprehension of legal principles) is nothing more than a mere fact that the Defendant made the victim’s anthromatic attitude, but did not make the victim feel insultingly.

2. The offense of insult is established when a person openly insults another person (Article 311 of the Criminal Act). It is a legal interest to protect the external reputation meaning a social evaluation of the value of a person. Here, the offense of insult means the expression of an abstract judgment or sacrific sentiment that could undermine the social evaluation of a person without a statement of fact (see, e.g., Supreme Court Decisions 87Do739, May 12, 1987; 2003Do3972, Nov. 28, 2003). Moreover, the offense of insult is established by openly expressing an abstract judgment or sacrific sentiment that could compromise the external reputation of the victim, or by openly expressing a victim’s external reputation, and it is not necessary that the victim’s external reputation should be infringed or that there is a risk of infringement upon the victim’s specific and real reputation after the victim’s appearance in Seoul-do (see, e.g., Supreme Court Decision 2016Do9674, Oct. 13, 2016).

생각하여 다시 택시에서 내려 피해자 운행 택시의 번호판을 촬영하면서 “ 너는 좆됐다 ”라고 말하였고, 피고인 역시 위와 같이 말한 사실은 인정하고 있는 점( 공판기록 제 29 쪽, 증거기록 제 23 내지 25 쪽), 피해자는 수사기관에서부터 원심 법정에 이르기까지 일관되게 피고인이 위와 같은 욕설 이외에도 10 분간에 걸쳐 큰 소리로 “ 씨 발 놈 아, 너 같은 새끼는 사라져 버려야...