Defendants shall be punished by imprisonment for six months.

However, for the defendant B and C, for two years from the date this judgment becomes final and conclusive.

Punishment of the crime

Defendant A, at the Seoul Central District Court on November 14, 2014, appealed ten months of imprisonment and seven million won of fine, on the grounds of the violation of the Act on the Punishment of Arrangement of Commercial Sex Acts, Etc., but on January 23, 2015, Defendant A was sentenced to the dismissal of appeal by the above court No. 2014No4758. The judgment of the first instance court became final and conclusive on February 4, 2015.

Criminal facts

1. Defendant A and Defendant B violated the Act on the Punishment of Arrangement of Commercial Sex Acts, Etc. (the Act on the Punishment of Arrangement of Commercial Sex Acts, Etc.) are the actual business owners who operated the entertainment tavern located under the Gangnam-gu Seoul Metropolitan Government I underground from January 2014. Defendant B is a person who works in the name of the said entertainment tavern or in the kitchen of the said entertainment tavern, and K is a person who is in charge of the operation of the said entertainment tavern as the manager of the said entertainment tavern.

At around 02:30 on May 29, 2014, Defendants and K conspired with each other to receive KRW 300,000 per capita including the drinking value and commercial sex acts from customers L, etc., and arrange female employees M et al. to have sexual intercourse with “N” telecom on the fiveth floor of the same building after having a customer contact with each other for more than one hour at studio, thereby having a sexual intercourse with each other. From January 2014 to October 2014, Defendants and K received money equivalent to KRW 30 to 350,000 from customers and had female employees contact with male descendants at studio and have sexual intercourse with NMocom, thereby obtaining sales equivalent to KRW 854,953,00 (based on credit card settlement price).

2. Defendant C’s violation of the Act on the Punishment of Arrangement of Commercial Sex Acts, Etc. (the Act on the Punishment of Arrangement of Commercial Sex Acts, Etc.) is a person who managed and operated the above nel from January 2014.

The Defendant, at around 02:30 on May 29, 2014, is a guest who was sent from the above entertainment drinking house to the above entertainment drinking house in the same building with knowledge of the fact that a guest L and female employees M are engaging in commercial sex acts. In such cases, the Defendant is a guest who was on the entertainment drinking house from January 29, 2014 to September 2014.