the supreme court said, "it is not illegal to collect income from sex traffickers and employee salaries."

The Supreme Court ruled that it is not a double additional collection to separately collect the salary received by business employees to the total amount of criminal proceeds obtained by prostitution owners.

The Supreme Court upheld the original court's order to collect KRW 820 million from the prostitution owner A and eight employees from KRW 8 million to KRW 80 million, respectively.

Unlike the first trial, which judged the salary paid by the owner to employees as the distribution of criminal proceeds, the second trial judged that it was an expense to obtain criminal proceeds and could not be deducted from the additional amount.

The defendants appealed, saying that more money would be collected than the actual criminal proceeds, but the Supreme Court judged that there was no problem because it was based on the Prostitution Punishment Act for owners and the Crime Profit Concealment Control Act for employees.