Dead Toad Found in Delivery Box at Doorstep... Live Lizard Left the Next Day

[Anchor]

Eight out of ten people in our country now live in apartment complexes and multi-family housing. However, conflict and friction continue to plague these spaces that are supposed to be our safest sanctuaries. Neighbors fight over noise, and distrust between residents often leads to legal battles.

TBC reporter Park Dong-joo sheds light on the darker side of apartment living.

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On the 21st, a person in their 50s, surnamed A, living in Dong-gu, Daegu, discovered a delivery box without a shipping label in front of their apartment door.

Inside the box was a dead toad.

The next day, another identical delivery box was left there, and this time it contained a live lizard.

Police investigations revealed that the person who left the boxes was a resident living upstairs, with whom A had been feuding over inter-floor noise since last year.

[Resident A]
"When the inter-floor noise was bad, it was really severe. I must have filed over 30 reports with the police station."

Another apartment complex in Suseong-gu, Daegu, is embroiled in disputes over the execution of long-term repair reserves.

At the center of the controversy is a parking lot painting project estimated at 1.6 billion won.

Some residents claimed that the construction costs were inflated, while the tenant representative filed complaints for business obstruction and other charges against them, escalating the neighborhood dispute into legal battles.

[Kim So-hee / Resident]
"They keep referring to residents who point out the unfairness of this construction as agitators, and we are now facing legal actions and criminal complaints filed against us."

In response, the tenant representative maintained that the selection of the parking lot construction company was conducted transparently in accordance with the long-term repair reserve execution plan.

Due to various reasons, a total of some 50 requests for audits on multi-family housing were filed with the Daegu Metropolitan City government over the past five years, resulting in over 1,200 citations. However, most of them only ended in cautions or corrective measures.

An arson incident at an apartment in Gyeongsan, which left eight casualties, also appears to have been triggered by long-standing conflicts among residents. Because the apartment complex has a small number of households, it did not even qualify for official audits.

This means there has been a complete absence of bodies to mediate years-long friction and conflict.

[Lee Sung-yong / Professor of Police Administration, Keimyung University]
"Such extreme expressions of anger and rage disorders are emerging in our society, and there are clear limits to preventing crimes relying solely on police responses. I believe we need to build a foundation where the local community can reach social consensus and ensure safety."

Apartments, which should be our safest homes, are suffering from conflicts that cannot be resolved even through police reports and lawsuits.

(Video Journalist: Lee Jung-woo, TBC)

Park Dong-joo, TBC
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