The country's number one portal and e-mail service provider Daum Communications filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging spam-mail damage against three companies, including an education website "K" and adult portal "W." This marks the first e-mail service provider to file a damage suit for spam-mail reasons.
Daum's lawyer, Jo Nam-eok said the company suffered damage because the three firms were sending a total of 6 million junk mails a month, which were backlogging its servers. Jo is demanding a total of W39 million in compensation from the three, insisting this figure includes the increase spending on equipment Daum had to buy.
In the United States, a law firm recently filed a lawsuit against a junk mail sender for compensation set at US$50 per message as the concerned party failed to warn recipients the mail was an advertisement.
(Park Nae-sun, nsun@chosun.com)
