60s Fined After Sending Hundreds of Texts Following Breakup After 2 Weeks

Met on Social Networking Service... Continued Demands for Meeting
Court Sentences 100,000 Won Fine

A man in his 60s, who sent hundreds of text messages over six months to an ex-lover he met on social networking service (SNS) and dated for two weeks before breaking up, ended up becoming a convicted criminal.

According to a report by Yonhap News on the 23rd, Judge Lee Eun-sang of the Chuncheon District Court Criminal Division 3 sentenced A (66) to a fine of 100,000 won on charges of violating the Minor Offenses Act.

A dated B, whom he met on SNS, for two weeks and broke up around November 2020. He was tried for repeatedly contacting B by sending text messages 462 times from February 5 to August 2, 2021. It was reported that A continuously sent messages such as "Please contact me" and "The marriage promise remains unchanged" to B.

Earlier, A received a summary order for a fine but appealed and requested a formal trial. In the formal trial, he was also sentenced to a fine, the same as the summary order.

The judge explained the sentencing reason, saying, "Despite the victim's explicit refusal, the defendant sent messages demanding meetings or dating hundreds of times," and added, "The sentence set in the summary order is deemed appropriate."

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