JECHEON, North Chungcheong Province -- A local district court has acquitted the operator of a controversial "nude" pension of violating laws on public health and morals, court records showed Wednesday.
In 2009, the defendant surnamed Kim opened the secret two-story nude pension for naturists in the remote mountainous village of Bongyang, Jecheon, about 105 km southwest of Seoul. He had to shut it down later due to strong protests by angry villagers who asserted it hurts villagers' emotions, but he reopened it last year.
He was accused of having run the pension for profit without an administrative permit by receiving an annual membership fee of 240,000 won ($214.40) from member nudists, while providing them with places for swimming, sunbathing and badminton.
(Yonhap)
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