youtube reporters sponsored by expensive suit "denied allegations"

The YouTube media "Open Sympathy TV" and "The Exploration" reporters, who were put on trial for receiving suits worth millions of won from their sponsors, denied all the charges.

Mr. A, the head of Open Sympathy TV, who is suspected of violating the anti-graft law, claimed that at the first trial held in Namyangju Branch of the Uijeongbu District Court, he recognized that the suit price provided was less than 1 million won.

Earlier, they received custom suits worth 3 million won each from sponsors two years ago, or had a management dispute at the boardroom. He was put on trial for a physical altercation.

Under the anti-graft law, journalists can be punished if they receive more than one million won at a time, or more than three million won a year.

The prosecution indicted a total of six people, including five representatives of Open Sympathy TV and the former CEO of The Exploration, without detention on charges of violating the anti-graft law.