According to foreign media reports recently, the second instance of the two South Korean game giants' plagiarism game infringement case ended, the lawsuit party NCSOFT won, and the defendant Netzen will face a huge compensation of more than 16.9 billion won, which is also the largest amount of litigation compensation in the history of Korean games.

·The lawsuit began in June 2021, when NCSOFT sued Webzen (Net Zen), saying that Webzen’s mobile game R2M had plagiarized its game “Paradise m” in many places, which caused heated discussion.

·At that time, the NCSOFT team expressed their willingness to settle the dispute with Webzen (Net Zen), but for various reasons, it eventually went to court, with the amount of compensation at that time being only 1.1 billion won.

·In August 2023, the case ushered in the first instance in court. At that time, Webzen (Netzen) lost the case and was sentenced to compensate NCSOFT for about 1 billion won. However, Webzen (Netzen) chose to appeal and still operates R2M games.The following is the R2M game screen:

·The compensation amount algorithm for the second instance comes from 10% of R2M's total revenue to date of 169 billion won. Webzen (Net Zen) responded that he respected the court's judgment, but still chose to appeal to the Supreme Court. The trial at the higher level in South Korea will take two years, so the final third trial of the case will be launched in 2027, so stay tuned.The following is the game screen of "Paradise m":