“No answer. I moved too”… Floor noise with both hands raised by incumbent police officers

◆ Conflict between floor noise in the Zipkok era ◆

“There is no answer to the question of noise between floors. The move is the answer. I also moved.” (Current police officer)

This is what the police officer in charge said when Lee Seung-joon (pseudonym) living in Seoul recently encountered a floor noise conflict with neighbors and found a competent police station. The policeman said that he gave advice to Mr. Lee, saying, “I also had a severe conflict with my neighbors due to the noise between floors.” The point was that’to avoid interfloor noise because it’s dirty, not because it’s scary’. The policeman even revealed his identity as a homicide detective, but it was not easy to resolve the noise between floors and had to move. After receiving advice from the police officer, Lee eventually moved to the first floor of the same apartment. It happened after spending 2.5 million won for cushioning and 40 million won for remodeling to prevent noise between floors.

The conflict between floor noise in private areas, residential areas, has now emerged as a sensitive social problem. Experts point out that interlayer noise stress is a serious social problem that stimulates individual identity and survival instincts. In particular, as the number of’Zipcocks’ increased due to Corona 19, the inter-floor noise conflict intensified, leading to violent crimes such as assault and murder. Although the situation is serious, the issue of inter-floor noise, like Lee’s case, is a difficult part for the police and administrative authorities to solve. A police official said, “Since it is a private area, it is not easy to secure evidence at the time of the noise.” The police are focusing on the role of mediating both sides by dispatching to the scene when a report of inter-floor noise is received.

If mediation is not easy, it is highly probable that it will be an extreme case, which clearly shows the seriousness of the interfloor noise conflict. Kim Mo, who lives in Gyeonggi Province, said, “Every night at the house upstairs, the sound of the hammer of the foot was so loud that many protested.” “I met and talked each day, but when my emotions became intensified, I swear and threatened with’I want to sharpen’. “I said.

In some cases, retaliation for inter-floor noise has returned to fines. Recently, the Incheon District Law ruled that residents of the lower floor who deliberately induce’noise between floors between floors’, claiming that the upper floors of the apartments generated noise between floors, were compensated for 10 million won for alimony and about 30 million won for the rent of the upper floors. The court determined that the defendant reported to the security office several times that the house on the upper floor where the plaintiffs lived for the past two years made noise between floors, and that the defendant had intentionally made noise using a speaker or the like.

Due to the spread of Corona 19, the noise conflict between floors increased as the number of outside activities was reduced and the amount of time to stay in the house increased. According to the Korea Environment Corporation’s Inter-floor Noise Neighbor Center on the 30th, the number of phone consultations related to inter-floor noise last year was 42,250, up 60% from 2019 (26,257). In particular, it is pointed out that the inter-floor noise conflict has increased significantly as the amount of time to stay in the house increased due to the government’s social distancing measures in accordance with Corona 19.

As the inter-floor noise conflict becomes serious, political circles are also showing movement. Recently, Democratic Party lawmaker Yang Gyeong-sook proposed an amendment to the Apartment House Management Act, which would constitute and operate an interfloor noise management committee. If this law is passed, residents of apartment houses must form a management committee and operate to mediate inter-floor noise conflicts.

Kwak Geum-ju, a professor at the Department of Psychology at Seoul National University, said, “Because the continuous interfloor noise problem develops into anger emotions, it is important to manage it well in the beginning.” “There is a case in which conflict has decreased through a campaign to maintain intimate relations between residents in the United States. “It’s a great way to increase the efficiency of the company.”

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