I received a report that other people outside the house can see me eating, sleeping, and living.
The entire wall of the building across from it is made of glass, so the inside of the apartment is reflected as it is.
Reporter Kim Ae-rin investigated why the law said there was nothing they could do about it.
[Report]
Late at night, in an apartment in Gwangju.
In the living room, a man is seen taking off his jacket and coming and going.
In other houses, you can see children walking in and out of the living room and women exercising.
It is reflected on the wall of the commercial building on the other side of the apartment.
It’s like the whole glass acts as a mirror.
The straight-line distance between the two buildings with안전놀이터 the road in between is about 30 meters.
Apartment residents were placed in an embarrassing situation where their private lives were revealed as they were.
[Apartment resident: “Really, the fact that someone is looking at me is basically impossible in my home where I should rest comfortably.”] The
bigger problem is that people passing by the street can also see the apartment reflected in the glass. that it can.
Your privacy is exposed directly or through reflection, in a shopping mall, on the street, or in an apartment, day or night.
[Apartment Resident: “(Because of that mall) we can see people passing by upstairs and downstairs. So we can’t open the door even at night.”]
But there are no laws regulating it.
In 2010, during the construction of the Naver office building in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, the problem of the all-glass building became known as nearby residents filed a lawsuit.
An amendment to the building law to strengthen regulations has been proposed, but it has been pending in the National Assembly for three years.
[Soundbite] Yoo Hyeon-soo/Gwangju Seo-gu Office Architecture Department Building Guidance Team Leader : “(Regarding privacy violations), it is difficult for us to take administratively binding administrative measures as there is no regulation…
” It said it would minimize inconvenience to residents by continuing consultations, such as demanding
This is Kim Ae-rin from KBS News.