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Residents of a village in Ulsan are anxious about the smoke blowing with a strange smell.

Hundreds of tons of gray powder that someone has brought to farmland is believed to be aluminum that can spontaneously ignite in moisture.



UBC reporter Shin Hye-ji covered the contents of the report, why they secretly left these things and how dangerous they are.



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Ulsan, Ulju-gun, a farmland with sacks stacked like a mountain.



Villagers gathered here after witnessing smoke rising from one side of the pile of batteries.



[Kwon Seong-su/Resident: Smoke came up from several bags when I came in the morning.

I think it’s because it is ignited, and because of the heat.]



[Kim Oe-suk/Resident: There was a strange smell because the wind was blowing over here.

I didn't even know there was such a thing, but the reaction kept getting strange and my face was getting wider.]



After a bright day, I visited the site again.




The amount of waste accumulated here is estimated to be around 500 tons, which is equivalent to 25 25 ton dump trucks.



This material is presumed to be aluminum powder.



Due to the nature of aluminum, there is a high possibility of spontaneous ignition when moisture comes in contact with it, but when smoke erupted from the bag, residents mobilized heavy equipment to scoop out the soil.



On the 9th, Mr. A, a waste disposal company, rented the land to the landowner saying, "We need a place to temporarily store recyclable waste from a Pohang company."



[Landlord: At first, I thought it was recycled. I thought I would take it right away when I came in. But I didn’t take it even after 10 days… .] When the



problem was revealed, Mr. A explained to the landlord, saying, "There is no place to dispose of the waste at once, so we just put it for a while."



However, these piles of batteries were brought into Ulsan without any permission.



As there is concern about secondary damage such as environmental pollution, Ulju-gun will analyze the composition of the material and request an investigation to see if it is a systematic event between the discharger and the carrier.



(Video coverage: Kim Un-seok UBC· Choi Hak-soon UBC)