Lee Young-ae and Kim Gun-hee are alleged to be close to YouTubers, and a fine of 7 million won is summarily prosecuted
Mar 20, 2025
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The Seoul High Prosecutors' Office announced on the 20th that it had summarily indicted Jeong Chun-soo, former CEO of Sympathy TV, on charges of violating the Information and Communication Network Act (defamation) on the 14th.
Summary prosecution is a procedure in which the prosecution requests a summary order from the court to impose a fine or fine in a written hearing without a formal hearing.
Earlier, Lee Young-ae donated 50 million won to the Syngman Rhee Presidential Memorial Foundation to build the Syngman Rhee Memorial Museum.
In a video titled Kim Gun-hee, Lee Young-ae, and Kim Haeng', Gonggam TV claimed that Lee Young-ae's donation was due to her friendship with Kim.
In response, Lee Young-ae's agency Group A said, `Open Sympathy TV Jung Chun-soo filed a complaint with the Media Arbitration Commission against Lee Young-ae for disparaging her and spreading fake news contrary to the facts, filed a civil suit with the Seoul Western District Court for violating the Information and Communication Network Act.'
The agency said that `Lee Young-ae would not have sued Chung if she admitted the fake news and apologized,' and waited for an apology and a suspension of broadcasting for more than a month. Even now, if Chung admits to fake news and sincerely apologizes, he asked his legal representative to drop the charges" he said.
In the trial held so far, Lee Young-ae claimed to have suffered losses due to defamation by false facts, while former representative Jeong Cheon-soo refuted that the information was not false and that it was for the public interest and was not illegal.
The case was transferred to Yangju Police Station in Gyeonggi-do and a decision was made to reject the case, but it was sent to the prosecution on Lee Young-ae's objection.
Since then, the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors' Office has decided not to indict Lee Young-ae in June last year, but Lee Young-ae appealed again, and the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office has taken over the case and has been investigating the case directly in August of the same year.
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