Defendants shall be punished by imprisonment for eight months.

However, for two years from the date this judgment became final and conclusive, each of the above Defendants is against the Defendants.

Punishment of the crime

[Criminal Justice] On September 22, 2017, Defendant A was sentenced to a suspended sentence of ten (10) years of imprisonment with prison labor for the crime of interference with business, etc. by the District Court, which became final and conclusive on September 30, 2017.

【Criminal Facts】

The Defendants: (a) purchased a “E (or F)” name of the DNA automatic hunting program, which is a malicious program that is produced to enable users to perform their duties and acquire items and game money, without directly manipulating their character in the way of reading the core data of the game process and exposing the game code bypassing the process domain protection function of the security program carried out together with C when implementing the online game “D” operated by C; and (b) recruited game users to sell it to them.

No one shall destroy, destroy, alter, or forge an information and communications system, data, program, or similar without any justifiable ground, nor shall convey or spread a program that is likely to interrupt operation of such system, data, program, or similar (hereinafter referred to as "malicious program").

Nevertheless, between November 29, 2013 and April 13, 2015, the Defendants partially revised the facts charged by reflecting the period of use of malicious programs purchased from KRW 15,000 to KRW 17,000 per unit of 30-day usage code from the Internet site (K), such as “I” and “J” established to sell D automatic hunting programs, etc., and the period of use of malicious programs purchased from KRW 15,00 to KRW 17,00 per unit of 30-day usage code, and the statement made by Defendant A on the average purchase price (as of Articles 662 and 752 of the Investigation Records).

After allowing the D Game users to sell a certification code of KRW 30,00 or KRW 35,00 per unit to the D Game users, the certification code is paid to the sum of KRW 239,626,50 in total over 4,917 with the Defendant’s name bank account (M) and NF (O), Defendant B’s Lbank account (P), etc. and the sales amount equivalent to KRW 239,626,50 in total.