1. The plaintiffs' claims against the defendant are all dismissed.

2. The costs of lawsuit are assessed against the plaintiffs.

1. Facts of recognition;

A. Status 1 of the parties is the Plaintiff Association A (hereinafter “Plaintiff Association”).

(2) On August 22, 2016, Plaintiff B was appointed as the president of the Plaintiff Association on March 25, 2013 and was reappointed on March 22, 2016, and is currently in office as the president of the Association.

3) The Defendant is the person who was in office as the reporter of the editing bureau of the E-mail and the F Newspapers. B. The Defendant’s article 1) The Plaintiff Association election the representatives for each department of construction technology, and then the president of the Association shall be elected at a general meeting composed of the president and representatives.

2) On January 4, 2016, the Plaintiff Association held the 8th representative election, and on March 22, 2016, the Plaintiff Association elected Plaintiff B as the 12th president of the Association from March 28, 2016. 3) The Defendant published the attached article 1 (G) on January 21, 2016 in the E Newspapers, and published the attached article 2 (H) on February 29, 2016 in the F Newspapers, respectively.

[Ground of recognition] Facts without dispute, Gap evidence Nos. 1 and 2, the purport of the whole pleadings

2. The assertion and judgment

A. The gist of the plaintiffs' assertion was that there was no illegality or illegality in the election of the 8th representative representatives of the plaintiff's association, and the plaintiff B did not commit any misconduct in relation to the operation of the plaintiff's association.

Nevertheless, in the attached article 1, the Defendant reported as if the Plaintiff Association and the executive branch thereof were stopped from the illegal election. The attached article 2 reported only the unilateral assertion of DC, which is a construction engineer, and reported as if the Plaintiff B had committed misconduct, such as exercising personnel rights and involvement in interest.

Since the honor of the plaintiffs was damaged by the defendant's above report, the plaintiffs seek payment of consolation money equivalent to KRW 50 million to the defendant.

B. Whether the article of the 1 press media constitutes a tort by impairing the honor of others.