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Professional soldiers have welfare benefits that are supported by articles. Most of the officers lacked facilities in apartments that are nearly 40 years old, and when we looked at the articles by some of the military commanders, we lived in a 100-square-foot mansion on more than three times the size of Jamsil Baseball Stadium.

I'm Jung Sung-jin.

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It is a military facility in Wonju, Gangwon-do that used to be the commander of the 1st Army Commander and 4-star General until the end of last year.

[Nearby: Here's the unit, unit. It came out of the troops, the cars. (It's used here as a hostel, don't you know?) We never know that.]

Today, the first and third forces have been merged and used as the officer of a unit commander in the army.

An army officer commander in residence.

I can't go inside myself, but along the long walls, most of the mountains are used as commander's site.

I checked the size with satellite imagery.

The total area of ​​the building is 46,252 square meters, more than three times the area of ​​Jamsil Baseball Stadium.

The building is also a 546-square-meter large mansion.

The same is true for the quarters of the defense ministers and other four-star generals who are the commanding officers of the military.

The Army Chief of Staff in Gyeryong, Chungcheongnam-do, has been confirmed as a 12,000-square-meter mansion on a 32,000-square-meter site and a 825-square-meter mansion.

As much as maintenance costs such as electricity, water, and gas are used, at least 20 million won a year and at least 6 million won.

Military officials say the commander's office is different from the general officer's office because it includes all the facilities necessary for commanding the unit as a post-office command post concept.

However, military internal regulations limit the number of top commanders' accommodations to no more than 231 square meters.

It is an obvious violation.

What about the lodgings of other professional soldiers, except the commander, most of them are older apartments that are nearly 40 years old.

75 square meters of family size for four people are supported, even with insufficient facilities.

[Former Army Officer: There are no leaks on the veranda, no insulation, no matter how hard you run the boiler. I sometimes used thread.]

[Kim Byung-gi / Deputy Democratic Party (National Assembly Defense Agency): Unlike generals, general officers' accommodation is very poor. At the very least, we need to urgently improve the living environment so that human life is possible.]

The Pentagon says it plans to improve all of its 30-year-old professional soldiers by 2021, and the military commander will continue to meet regulations.

(Video coverage: Bae Munsan, Video editing: Park Ki Deok, VJ: Kim Jong Gap)