There was a report saying 'My house is illegal'.
These are the people who have been notified of building violations out of nowhere.
It looked like a house, but it was actually a shopping mall.
It infringed the right to sunlight by illegally extending the veranda and room.
They confessed to these violations of the law and said they felt unfair.
The complaint is that it was the owner of the building who committed the illegal act, but they were forced to bear all the punishment for not knowing this.
Unfortunate complaints continue to rise.
This is because the number of violations is increasing.
In 2014, it was 84,000 VND, but it increased to 109,000 VND four years later.
Last year, 128,000 dong were illegally notified.
There are different types of violations.
Neighborhood living facilities, that is, a case of selling as a house after getting permission as a shopping mall, cases of illegally extending a part of a house without permission, and 'splitting a room' where several people share one room are all violations of the building.
Why Violation Buildings Are Increasing
The biggest reason why the number of violation buildings continues to increase is that it is a 'remaining business' from the point of view of the client.
The current owner, not the building owner, bears the order for restoration to the original state for violations and the cost of compulsion to comply if not corrected.
It means that once you break it, you sell it to someone else.
The same is true even if the building owner himself is the owner.
An official from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, "There are criminal penalties in the Building Act, but the reality is that most people pay only a fine of several million won."
From the perspective of a client who earns billions of dollars in income, there is nothing to be afraid of designating a building that violates the law.
The local government also blames those who bought it without knowing it was a violation.
It is criticized that the local government manages and supervises the entire building process from building permits, construction permits, and use approvals, but it is not possible to filter out violations.
Due to the shortage of manpower, local governments are outsourcing most of the field investigation work to private architects.
It means that we have no choice but to judge by looking at the documents, but they only say that there is no way to prevent the owner from committing an illegal act after approval for use.
In fact, from the standpoint of local governments, it is not a bad thing to see an increase in the number of violating buildings.
This is because the compulsory performance money that local governments walk can be used freely without specifying a separate use.
In fact, the amount of compulsory performance newly imposed by 17 cities and provinces increased from about 120 billion won in 2015 to 170 billion won four years later.
Currently, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport proposed to the National Assembly a bill that each local government should bear at least half of the enforcement fee and use it as an expense to manage and supervise violation buildings.
'Strengthened owner punishment'? 'Sexualization'?... Building owners should be punished
In 2018, lawmaker Park Hong-geun of the Democratic Party of Korea proposed a bill to delete the limit on the number of times of compulsory enforcement charges imposed on buildings in violation. Residential buildings of 85 square meters or less had to pay the compulsory performance fee only five times, but it was imposed for life. The purpose was to eradicate violating buildings by intensifying punishment, but complaints surged. Since the enforcement in April 2019, appeals have been pouring in, saying, “I bought it without knowing that it was a violation, but I have to pay the compulsory payment for the rest of my life.”
This time, Rep. Park took out a 'positive' card and held it. A training program that turns a blind eye to violating buildings is carried out periodically every 6-7 years, and 2014 is finally over, which means that we will do it again. This is to appease the angry owners. Seven such bills for gender equality were proposed, mainly by constituency lawmakers who complained that they were unfair. However, it is difficult to pass the law because of the fairness with those who obey the building law and the possibility that illegal extensions will increase again, saying that one day they will become bisexual.
So far, there has been a total of 5 positives. Infringement of the right to sunlight and safety issues have not been resolved, and there have been repeated cases of just closing eyes, but efforts to reduce the violation of the building itself have not been great. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, through current lawmaker Jang Kyung-tae, proposed a bill that would make it mandatory to conduct an annual inspection of violations of buildings. The more frequent the investigation, the greater the likelihood of discovering the building owner who has committed a violation after approval for use, but the current level of punishment will not change the situation much. The increase in violating buildings cannot be prevented and the 'unpleasant appeal' cannot but continue to be done by leaving the building owner alone and strengthening the punishment for the owner and then re-gendering it when complaints increase. Even now, punishment for building owners who commit violations should be strengthened.