[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Seok-jin, Legal Affairs Specialist] The court upheld the provisional injunction ordering attorney Jeong Cheol-seung, the representative of the family of the late former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, to delete part of a post titled "Facts Related to the Late Mayor Park Won-soon Seoul Case" that he published on his social networking service (SNS).
According to the legal community on the 1st, the Seoul Central District Court Civil Agreement Division 51 (Presiding Judge Go Hong-seok) issued a decision on the 29th of last month to approve the original provisional injunction ruling regarding Jeong's objection to the court's provisional injunction decision.
This year, attorney Jeong posted three posts titled "Facts Related to the Late Mayor Park Won-soon Seoul Case" parts 1 to 3 on his SNS.
In these posts, Jeong summarized the facts concerning the police investigation and the National Human Rights Commission's inquiry into the sexual harassment case involving former Mayor Park, as well as the claims of the victim, Ms. A, and included his subjective opinions on the matter.
In response, the victim's side filed a provisional injunction with the court in August, requesting the deletion of the three posts by Jeong and prohibiting the posting of the same content on publicly accessible information and communication networks such as internet blogs, cafes, portal sites, personal homepages, or SNS.
The family also requested that if Jeong violates this order, he be fined 10 million KRW per day for non-compliance with the deletion order and 10 million KRW per violation for breaching the posting prohibition order.
However, on September 3rd, the court issued a "partial approval" decision, ordering the deletion of one of the three posts uploaded by Jeong and dismissing the remaining claims of the family.
Jeong filed an objection to the provisional injunction decision, but the court did not accept it.
Meanwhile, it is reported that even after the court's partial approval decision, Jeong did not delete the posts, leading the family to file for indirect enforcement (forcing debt fulfillment through financial penalties), after which Jeong voluntarily deleted the posts.
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