1. The Defendant’s KRW 15,00,000 as well as 5% per annum from August 14, 2019 to January 16, 2020 to the Plaintiff.

1. Facts of recognition;

A. The Plaintiff and C are married couple who completed the marriage report on February 9, 2007.

B. From March 2019 to May 2019, the Defendant: (a) knowingly known that he/she had a spouse from March 2019 to May 2019, and (b) committed unlawful acts, such as having sexual intercourse, with C.

[Reasons for Recognition] Each entry of Gap evidence Nos. 1 through 4, the purport of the whole pleadings

2. The act, in principle, of infringing on a couple's communal life falling under the essence of marriage or interfering with the maintenance thereof and infringing on a spouse's right as the spouse by making a third party's assertion and judgment unjust act with the spouse, constitutes tort.

(see, e.g., Supreme Court en banc Decision 201Meu2997, Nov. 20, 2014). Meanwhile, “illegal act” under Article 840 subparag. 1 of the Civil Act includes any act that is not faithful to the duty of good faith as a spouse, but is a broad concept rather than the so-called “illegal act” and “illegal act” ought to be evaluated in consideration of the degree and circumstances depending on specific cases.

(See Supreme Court Decision 92Meu68 delivered on November 10, 1992, etc.). Examining the above facts in light of the legal principles as seen earlier, the Defendant is obliged to compensate for mental damages suffered by the Plaintiff, since it is obvious in light of the empirical rule that the Defendant, despite being aware of the existence of a spouse, committed an unlawful act with C, thereby infringing on, or interfering with, a marital life falling under the essence of marriage between the Plaintiff and C, infringed on the Plaintiff’s right as the spouse, and thereby, the Plaintiff suffered considerable mental pain.

Furthermore, with regard to the amount of consolation money that the Defendant is liable, various circumstances shown in the pleadings of the instant case, such as health team, the period of marriage and family relation of the Plaintiff and C, the period and degree of fraudulent act between the Defendant and C, the degree of suffering suffered by the Plaintiff due to the Defendant’s fraudulent act, and the impact on the marital life.