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In an apartment in Gwangju, a resident who was affected by noise between floors assaulted another resident with a blunt weapon.
While going to the house that caused the noise, he misunderstood the victim in front of the house as the owner of the house and assaulted him.
Reporter Seo-young Kim of KBC reports.
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On the 26th, in an apartment in Gwangju, a resident assaulted a neighbor with a blunt weapon.
A resident, angry at the sound of music heard late at night, wielded violence without asking a question to a man he met in front of a noisy house.
However, the victim was also another neighbor who came to protest because of the noise.
[Apartment resident (witness): It kept getting louder until around 10 or 11 at night.
So, one person came and said something, and someone chased it with a blunt, so it was reported and the police were dispatched.]
It turns out that the residents have been suffering from loud noises for a long time.
I reported to the police several times over the noise that had been going on for over a year, but the music I heard every night still didn't stop.
[Apartment resident (noise victim): I made a loud noise and called the police.
It makes a lot of noise very late at night.
From 1 year, repeated for a year (
it is)] The problem of noise between floors is increasing year by year.
Over the past 10 years, the number of reports of noise between floors has increased every year, reaching 46,000 last year.
In particular, from 2020, when the time spent at home increased due to COVID-19, the number of noise damage between floors increased significantly.
As incidents and accidents are continuing due to conflicts between neighbors due to noise, it is urgent to prepare countermeasures.