Lee Su-jeong, a professor of criminal psychology at Kyonggi University and the People Power Party Suwon-jeong district chair, who claimed that the side of former SSANGBANGWOOL Chairman Kim Seong-tae, implicated in the "cash remittance to North Korea case," might be managing the National Election Commission server, lost a civil lawsuit.
According to legal sources on the 16th, the 12th Civil Division of the Seoul Western District Court (Presiding Judge Kim Jin-young) on the 10th ruled partly in favor of the plaintiff in a damages suit filed by Company A against Lee, ordering Lee to pay 5 million won to Company A.
On Dec. 13, 2024, Lee posted on social media (SNS) a message to the effect that "even if President Yoon Suk-yeol is impeached, the election commission must be investigated." The post said that Company A managed the election commission's servers and that it was a subsidiary of SSANGBANGWOOL.
In response, Company A filed a lawsuit seeking 1.5 billion won in damages, saying Lee posted false information suggesting that election fraud could have been carried out by linking the company with North Korea and the election commission through an incorrect association.
The court found that Lee specified false information. The court viewed that while Company A carried out the National Election Commission's "integrated entrusted operation project for the election information system," this was a point in time one year before 2024, when SSANGBANGWOOL acquired Company A.
Lee said the SNS post was a "forwarded post" and that Lee expressed the opinion that it "needed verification." However, the court did not accept this.
On the 13th, Lee reportedly appealed the ruling.