The court has ruled that the YouTube media outlet 'Citizen Press The TamSa,' which identified a specific music cafe as the so-called 'Cheongdam-dong drinking party' location, must delete the related videos.
According to the legal community on the 24th, the Seoul Central District Court Civil Division 50 (Chief Presiding Judge Park Beom-seok) partially accepted the provisional injunction request filed by singer Imiki (Lee Bo-kyung) against The TamSa to delete and prohibit the posting of certain content.
It ordered The TamSa to delete 13 videos posted on its YouTube channel titled 'Cheongdam Gate Powerful Rumba Discovered! Celebrity Owner, Grand Piano, Capacity for 30 People,' among others. It also prohibited uploading or broadcasting these videos on the internet, and stipulated that if violated, The TamSa must pay Lee 5 million KRW per day.
The court stated, "This broadcast was made without the truth or without reasonable and valid grounds to recognize it as true," and judged that the materials submitted by The TamSa did not confirm that Lee's bar was the Cheongdam-dong drinking party location. However, the request to prohibit The TamSa from operating its YouTube channel if the videos were not deleted was dismissed.
In October last year, Kim Eui-gyeom, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, revealed a recorded phone call during the National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee's comprehensive audit, in which cellist A said that President Yoon Seok-yeol and Minister of Justice Han Dong-hoon attended a drinking party with Kim & Chang lawyers and stayed until dawn singing.
The TamSa uploaded the phone recordings disclosed by Representative Kim on its YouTube channel and repeatedly raised related suspicions. On December 20 last year, it claimed that the drinking party location was not somewhere in Cheongdam-dong but a music cafe operated by Lee in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
Cellist A is reported to have recently stated during police investigation that "I lied to deceive my ex-boyfriend."
Minister Han has filed a lawsuit seeking damages amounting to 1 billion KRW against Representative Kim and others.
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