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The tropical nights that make it difficult to sleep are continuing.

While electricity consumption is also increasing, there was a series of power outages on the night of last night (29th).

In the apartment complexes in Uijeongbu and Incheon, Gyeonggi-do, electricity was cut off overnight, which caused great inconvenience.



Correspondent Kim Sang-min.



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It is difficult to find a single light in a high-rise apartment complex.



Several residents, with portable fans and fans in their hands, are sitting in various places in the complex.



Yesterday evening, around 8:30, the electricity supply to an apartment complex in Jangam-dong, Uijeongbu-si, Gyeonggi-do was cut off.



Of the total 12 buildings, 10 buildings and 560 households suffered damage.



[Blackout Apartment Resident: (It's hot) I can't stay at home.

I've been doing this since 8 o'clock.

The refrigerator is all melted...

.]



It was a tropical night, when the sensible temperature rose to 30 degrees, but there was no air conditioning, and even the water supply overlapped.



[Kim Gye-rae / Jeongjeon apartment resident: I can't sleep because there is no water and I can't wash.

Because it's sticky.]



When the power outage lasted more than 5 hours, dozens of angry residents rushed to the management office.



[Oh, where is this apartment?

Today's world!]



KEPCO revealed that there was something wrong with the low-voltage circuit breaker, the apartment's own facility.



[Jeon Jeong, head of apartment management office: It is estimated that it is overloaded.

I thought it would be a simple fix, but it didn't work, so I was looking for parts.

It's just vacation season and it's not available (immediately), so the power outage is getting longer.]



The electricity supply resumed at around 2 am after the replacement of parts was completed.



Earlier, at around 7:20 pm yesterday evening, there was a power outage due to overload in an apartment complex in Jaksan-dong, Incheon, causing inconvenience to 100 households.