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| TITLE | Supreme Court Decision 2012Da19734 Decided August 20, 2014【Damages】 [full Text] |
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[1] Whether, by expressing critical opinion against a public figure in its opinion section, the press exceeds the limits of expression and commits a tort, and any limitations on the press’ fundamental function of monitoring, criticizing, and checking public figures concerning its criticism of a National Assembly member’s duty performance [2] In a case where the Plaintiff (a National Assembly member) made a statement at the National Assembly Women’s Committee, which was responded by the Defendant (a newspaper company)’s expression in its opinion title that the Plaintiff expressed “rape-like verbal abuse” against the media and in the article’s main text that “the Plaintiff flung filth at the faces of journalists,” etc., the case holding that it is difficult to view that such expressions constitute a personal attack by using excessively insulting language, deviate from the limits of expression, in light of various circumstances such as the overall content and purpose of the opinion article |
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