All appeals by the Defendants are dismissed.

1. Summary of the grounds for appeal;

A. On February 6, 2013, the Defendants posted false information on the D Internal Network BS bulletin (BS) bulletin stating that “The e-mail consents to the grant of true candidates, symbols No. 1 (12) themselves to the Government decoration, request the presidential award during the term of office, etc.” (hereinafter “instant bulletin”), thereby making it available for perusal by the members of the Korean branches D branch of the Korea Science and Technology Trade Union D (hereinafter “D branch”) (hereinafter “D branch”). In fact, the Defendants prepared a public protocol on their own around 2009 and submitted it to D. In fact, the victims consented to the D’s e-mail that “if the candidates for each recommendation recommended by the government department escape from the examination, even if they were awarded a subordinate decoration,” and thus, it is true that the victims have not received orders by themselves.

The notice of this case cannot be viewed as false.

B. The Defendants, as to whether the Defendants specified the victim, merely called “No. 12” subject to the instant notice, but did not directly request the victim, and the victim was awarded the presidential award at least four years prior to the date of publication. As such, the general public could not be aware of the fact that the subject of the instant notice was the victim.

C. Since it is natural to receive a reward on the victim's own request for whether the victim's reputation has been damaged due to the Defendants' act, it cannot be deemed that the victim's reputation has been damaged due to the posting of this case, and the Defendants merely posted the notice for the public interest and did not have an intention to impair the purpose of defamation or the honor of the victim.

2. Determination

A. Determination of whether the Defendants posted false facts is based on the evidence duly adopted and examined by the lower court.