On May 4, 2019, a man in his 40s who lived on the 15th floor injured a resident living downstairs with a weapon due to inter-floor noise problems in an apartment in Goundong, Sejong City. Photo Sejong Fire Department
“What do you get angry with?” In March of last year, Mr. A, who had quarreled with the residents of the upper floors in a villa in Dong-gu, Daejeon, for noise between floors, heard such a statement from the residents of the next door. Angry, Mr. A immediately came out of his house with a weapon and swung it toward Mr. B, and Mr. B died.
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Early conflict is the golden time for problem solving
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In an apartment in Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, in May, resident C went to the upper floor with a weapon in his house and protested, saying, “I can’t live because it’s very noisy.” In January, in Nam-gu, the inter-floor noise conflict continued for more than a year, causing residents to exchange punches and threaten with weapons.
As the inter-floor noise conflict between neighbors grows, there are many cases of crimes such as violence and murder, as well as retaliatory noise. While the inter-floor noise conflict is not resolved and prolonged noiseis not emotionIt is a fight. According to the report’Analysis of Victims’ Trends to Develop Guidelines for Civil Complaint Reduction of Inter-floor Noise’, which analyzed the case of inter-floor noise by the Housing Culture Improvement Institute, the conflict between floor noise is divided into three stages depending on the period.
First of all, within 6 months, it is the level of simply applying pressure to resolve it, and it does not spread to a major accident. However, in the second stage (6 months to 1 year), the inter-floor noise conflict expands into emotional problems between the parties. Distrust not only of the upper floors but also of arbitration agencies such as management offices begins. When it is more than a year after that, it feels that the proposed inter-floor noise solution method cannot find a clue, and eventually the victims start to settle themselves, such as preparing a legal lawsuit. In this process, A murder urge arises, violence Etc. may occur.
Sang-gon Cha, head of the Institute for Residential Culture Improvement, said, “Most assaults and murders due to inter-floor noise occur in generations that have been through the conflict for more than one year. Because it occupies %.”
Floor noise attorneys also “give up lawsuits and move”
Priority when there is a noise conflict between floors in apartments, etc. Management officeYou can request arbitration at If it is not resolved here, Floor noise Neighborhood CenterYou can file a complaint at the website for in-person consultation or noise measurement. As a result of the measurement, if the level of inter-floor noise is exceeded, Apartment Management Dispute Mediation CommitteeI Environmental Dispute Mediation CommitteeYou can apply for mediation at
Attorney Seung-Tae Lee (Gyeonggi-do Environmental Dispute Mediation Committee) who mainly deals with noise disputes said, “It usually takes more than a year for the neighboring center to measure noise after the first floor noise conflict occurs. Even if you apply for finance, you have to wait for as long as six months,” he said. “While waiting for this on the lower floors, it becomes increasingly impoverished and literally becomes hell.”
In fact, the lawyer, who suffered from floor noise damage for two years, said, “I tried everything I could about the damage to the floor noise, and I thought about filing a lawsuit. moveI did.”
Inter-floor noise complaints increase… 61% say “walking or running”
A child walking on a mat in an apartment home. Reporter Chun Kwon-pil
In particular, after the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), civil complaints for inter-floor noise increased explosively. Conflicts between neighbors are also growing.
“Because of Corona 19, I work from home, so I have more time at home during the week. So, the sound of the children in the upper house running and turning off the furniture can be heard from morning to late at night. When children run around, they can see the moving lines of movement. I’m often surprised by jumping from high places.” -Downstairs Mr. E
“I am taking online classes at a domestic school because my children’s study abroad was canceled due to the corona. I try to put on slippers as much as possible and make my children live on noise reduction mats, but my second child is in the first grade of elementary school, so the sound of footsteps is not well controlled.” -Upstairs Mr. F
Recently, there was a complaint about inter-floor noise that occurred in an apartment in Gyeonggi-do to the neighborhood center for inter-floor noise. When the person in charge visited the site, the lower floors complained that it was difficult to withstand the noise between floors because of working from home, while the upper floors complained that it was difficult to urge them not to run to the children at home.
These days, more than 200 complaints about inter-floor noise are received at the neighborhood center. According to the Neighborhood Center, the number of phone consultations for inter-floor noise last year was 42,250, up 60% from the previous year. In particular, as winter entered the house, the time in the house was getting longer, and as I lived with the windows closed, the number of civil complaints between floor noise doubled compared to the summer season.
The 2020 floor noise conflict in numbers. Graphic = Reporter Kim Young-ok [email protected]
As a result of analyzing the cause of the inter-floor noise conflict based on the contents of the neighboring center’s visitation consultation last year,’the sound of running or walking’ accounted for an overwhelmingly large proportion of 61.4%. The sound of a hammer (4.7%), the sound of pulling furniture (4.6%), door opening and closing (2%), and playing musical instruments (1.1%) were followed.
“As the corona grows, people are becoming more sensitive to inter-floor noise and a lot of fatigue.” It is a pity that there is no.”
He continued, “The number of employees is the same, but the number of civil complaints is exploding, so it is impossible to give an accurate answer on how long to wait for visit consultation or measurement.” He added, “To measure the noise, you have to leave the house for 24 hours, but there are many cases where it is not possible to measure the noise because there is no right place to go due to strengthening quarantine measures.”
“Don’t miss the golden time at the beginning of the conflict”
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Experts pointed out that it is important not to miss the initial golden time in order to resolve the conflict between floor noise, and pointed out that a conflict mediation system should be established from the community level, such as apartments.
Lee pointed out that “just as schools have school violence committees, it is imperative that each apartment community have an inter-floor noise committee, so that the decisions made there must be strengthened to have some coercion.”
Reporter Chun Kwon-pil [email protected]