<Anchor> It's a
cold winter.
Our neighbors in need, especially the living conditions are so poor that we often have to endure the bitter cold.
Reporter Yoon Nara met those who are in the blind spot of housing welfare.
<Reporter> This
is Euncheol's house, 6th grade elementary school, in Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do.
Passing through the soil and wood gates, you will see a house with plastic blocking the draft.
[Jo Eun-cheol (pseudonym) Father: (When and when was this house built?) It must have been around 100 years.]
One room in the gosiwon is the size of a room for Eun-cheol, his sister, and three older brothers.
[Jo Eun-cheol (pseudonym): Noona sleeps on a blanket over here, I sleep on this side, and hyung sleeps over there (sleep.)] As
winter came, the troubles increased.
With less food, the rats go in and out of the kitchen, gnawing on human food.
[Jo Eun-cheol (pseudonym): The rat ate the ramen after tearing it off the back of the bag. Avoid the mousetrap.]
Another painful thing is.
A toilet outside the house.
[Jo Eun-cheol (pseudonym): It's cold when I wash. In winter, the water is frozen and there is no water. After boiling (in a kettle), mix it with cold water.]
[
Choi Choi
/ Social Worker at Green Umbrella Children’s Foundation: The toilet is outside or still using a conventional toilet, so it’s so scary that it’s so scary to put up with the stool and children get sick. In some cases. Going to the emergency room saying 'A centipede is coming out of the house', 'A mouse is coming out of the house', and 'I've been bitten' (there are children)]
Father delivered food to his father who is blind in one eye and has a knee problem due to cruciate ligament surgery and take responsibility for their livelihood.
[Jo Eun-cheol (pseudonym) military father: 700, 800 batteries at most (per day). (per bag) 20kg and 25kg each. My whole body aches because the work is hard. (How much is your monthly salary?) 2 million won. Aren't we supposed to teach children?] The
problem is that because they have an income of 2 million won a month, they are excluded from the basic livelihood security system and cannot receive housing welfare benefits.
[Lim Se-hee / Professor of Social Welfare, Seoul Cyber University: Korea's housing benefits are only for households beneficiaries of basic security, and public rental housing also has the right to move in first when households receiving basic security. In other words, they are working hard and raising children on their own, but they cannot get out of the housing poverty situation.] The
government has set minimum housing requirements such as water and sewage facilities and flush toilets as the minimum housing standard for the people to live a comfortable life. However, as of 2019, there are 1.06 million households that do not even meet this standard.
There are many people who live in a space that cannot be called a home at all.
Bee Village in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, where people who have been driven from here and there for decades live in plastic greenhouses.
I found the house of Eun-hye Lee, who has been living here for 27 years.
Because there is no water and sewerage system installed because it is an illegal building, underground water is used, but it often freezes in winter.
[Lee Eun-hye (pseudonym)/80 years old: (water) doesn't come out. It must have been frozen.]
There is not even a toilet.
[Lee Eun-hye (pseudonym)/80 years old: There is no bathroom.
(Summary) Just take it in a bucket and bury it in the ground.]
Electricity panels for insulation are installed on the floor of the room, but the electricity bill is not the only thing.
[Lee Eun-hye (pseudonym)/80 years old: Turn off this (electric panel) when you sleep.
even if it's cold
Because of the electricity bill.] By
the way, the amount of briquettes that were sponsored every winter has decreased to half this year.
[Roughness W / Bee Village Chairman town (heating) I'm mainly into briquettes, year juneunde household 200 sheets equal to the past because the corona is now said to household 120 sheet Contact this (come) today -
toxic tough winter corona economic crisis aftermath More attention and support are needed for low-income neighbors who send
[Heo Gi-bok / CEO of Seoul Briquette Bank: Since there is a presidential election next year, it would be better if the presidential candidates in particular paid a little more attention to those who are in the absolute poor and in the blind spot.]
(VJ: Min-shin Ahn, Drone photography: Dong-cheol Kang )