The Supreme Court ruled that a defendant who was brought to court for swearing at the other party's child during a dispute over land cannot be punished for insult. This is because the crime of insult is established when there is a ‘performance’ that can be recognized by an unspecified or large number of people. According to the legal community on the 10th, the 3rd Division of the Supreme Court (Chief Justice Lee Heung-gu) recently overturned the original decision that sentenced the defendant indicted on contempt charges to a fine of 500,000 won and sent the case back to the Daejeon District Court. In May 2023, the defendant was sent to trial on charges of insulting the other party's son (15) during a dispute over a land boundary issue in Seosan, South Chungcheong Province, by swearing at him by saying things like "Hey, XXX. What are you doing, XX?" and "Are you a son? XX like this will get hit on you too." The first trial found him guilty and sentenced him to a fine of 1 million won, and in the second trial, the issue was whether local residents heard the swear words. It occurred to me. However, the investigation did not prove that a local resident was present at the scene, and the second trial fined the defendant 500,000 won, saying that the fact that the defendant's parents heard swear words was sufficient to justify the crime of insult.