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The Seoul Central District Court ordered Good Choice Company, the firm behind the accommodation booking platform of the same name, to pay 1 billion won ($852,300) to Yanolja as compensation for its theft of Yanolja’s business data.
The court said Good Choice gained profit from using information gathered from Yanolja and applied it to their service operations.
Yanolja filed the suit in 2018, seeking 2 billion won in compensation, alleging that GCC stole a massive amount of its data on accommodation partners from a computer server in 2016.
According to the court, the head of sales strategy at Good Choice requested a company programmer develop a program that could gather service operation data from their rival, including lists of their accommodation partners, addresses and sales…