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In May 2018, SBS first announced the so-called'Radon Bed' to the world.

Radioactive material'radon' was detected in a famous bed mattress.

Three years after that, victims' meetings were formed and government measures were also urged, but damage investigations have not yet been conducted properly.

Recently, a rally was held to protest the government's indifference, and Gyeonggi Province is the first local government to test for the harmfulness of'radon beds'.



Reporter Kang Min-woo reports exclusively.



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Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myeong said in an interview with SBS that "Gyeonggi Province has decided to budget for an experiment to verify the harmfulness of'radon beds'."



[Jae-myeong Lee/Governor of Gyeonggi: There was an application for a program to verify whether it is scientifically harmful, but we are going to conduct a scientific experimental test as a subsidy grant project.]




Gyeonggi Province is the first government or local government to verify the harmfulness of radon beds.



The civic group that will perform verification with Gyeonggi Province is the'Seongnam Consumer Citizens' Meeting, which is continuing discussions with experts such as Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health.



It is known that specific experimental methods are being reviewed in animal tests or blood tests for victims.



The goal is to ensure that the verification results come out within this year.



Last year, Governor Lee ordered the Gyeonggi-do level to investigate cases of damage.



Among the suspected damage cases received in Gyeonggi Province for reasons such as using the bed in question, 647 were subject to the actual condition investigation, and 40 cases were diagnosed with cancer'after using the bed'.




[Jae-myeong Lee/Governor of Gyeonggi: In fact, even after the humidifier incident was severely damaged, the investigation was only started and compensation was not properly handled.

Radon beds are actually very likely to be like that...

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Gyeonggi Province is conducting an investigation on the actual condition of radon beds, it is also expected to verify the harmfulness of the radon bed.



(Video coverage: Kim Hyun-sang, Kim Nam-sung, video editing: Yumira)    



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