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1. All appeals filed by the plaintiffs are dismissed.
2. The costs of appeal are assessed against the Plaintiffs.
3. Parties to a judgment of the first instance.
Reasons
1. Basic facts
A. The Plaintiffs are persons or legal entities that operate a sales center, agency, or agency of VN (VDed Network, value-added network) that operates the settlement brokerage business of credit cards, etc. by installing credit card terminals.
The purpose of the defendant is to issue, sell, and manage credit cards and electronic currency, to pay proceeds in connection with the use of credit cards, etc., to members of credit cards, etc., and to recruit and manage member stores.
B. The Defendant concluded a service contract for the recruitment of franchise stores (hereinafter “instant service contract”) with the Plaintiffs and extended the contract period by one year for each year. The Plaintiffs of Article 1 of the franchise recruitment service contract shall perform the business concerning “solicitation and management of franchise stores” performed by the Defendant, and provide services at the Defendant’s request.
The term "solicitation" in this contract within the scope of solicitation means the business of collecting applications for membership of a franchise store from a third party (member shop) who wishes to join the defendant's franchise store and submitting all of the draft documents to the defendant after completing procedures for verifying the facts of the details of the application and required documents and verifying the business status of the place of business in accordance with the bylaws determined by the defendant.
Article 3 Approval of the franchise store shall examine the documents submitted by the plaintiffs to the membership of the franchise store in accordance with the internal rules, and shall approve only the business places deemed appropriate as the result of the examination as the franchise store by the defendant.
Article 4 (Payment of Fees) The defendant shall complete computerized registration for a business establishment approved pursuant to the procedures prescribed in the preceding three Articles among the recruitment documents directly submitted by the plaintiffs to the defendant, and may pay "fee" according to the number of registered business establishments.
However, if the plaintiffs have failed to pay the defendant's claims, the amount and amount of the fees specified in this contract as well as the delayed payment.