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Not long ago, a woman in her 60s fell down from the stairs of a wholesale market in Daegu and died.

When I inspected this stairway, it was found that the slope was steeper than the standard and the height was different, so there were many parts lacking in safety.



This is the exclusive report by TBC reporter Seo Eun-jin.



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woman in her 60s carrying a bag looks around the clothes with her party and heads down the stairs to go downstairs.



A woman who was going down side to side because the stairs were steep suddenly disappeared and fell to the floor downstairs where her main entrance to the Garden Mall was.



She tripped and fell down the stairs, and people around her tried CPR, but she did not find her conscious, and she eventually died.



The bereaved family vomits outrage saying that it was a foreseen talent that was caused by the structural problem of the stairs.



[Kim Young-soo / Husband of a woman who died in her 60s: How absurd would it be to say that a healthy person with no pain anywhere suddenly suffered something like this?]



Architects say that the slope of the stairs reaches 45 degrees, which does not meet the current standards for designing not to exceed 30 degrees. point out.



The biggest problem is that the stair height is uneven.



When I measured it with a ruler, both the width and height of the stairs were different.



There is also no 'stair landing' that is installed flat in the middle of the stairs to prepare for the risk of falling.



[Lee Jeong-jin / Visiting Professor, Department of Architectural Design, Daegu Haany University: When people actually go down, they remember the number of stairs by memory.

However, if the height is different, there is a very high risk of



stumbling.] In addition, he pointed out that there is a difference between the number of stairs in the architectural drawing and the actual number of stairs, so an on-site investigation is necessary for unauthorized extension or renovation.



Although there are many deficiencies in the current laws and regulations, it was used as it was 43 years ago when the Dongsan Shopping Mall was completed in 1979 and there was no law on stair safety.



The Shopping Mall Prosperity Association also acknowledges the dangers of the stairs, but there is no other way than to install a railing.