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Construction Giants Race to Minimize Inter-floor Noise as New Regulations Enter Effect

SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Reducing inter-floor noise presents a significant challenge for construction companies, especially in light of the government’s recent announcement that apartments failing to meet new inter-floor noise standards will not receive construction approval. Despite the government’s initiative to address inter-floor noise concerns, it is imperative for construction firms to devise effective [...]

Gov’t to Not Authorize Apartment Completion Unless Inter-floor Noise Level Meets Standards

SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The land ministry said Monday it will not authorize the completion of newly built apartments if inter-floor noise levels fail to meet accepted standards. As part of measures to tackle widespread social problems surrounding noise disputes between neighbors, the ministry said it will also strengthen quality control by measuring [...]

3 Construction Firms Team Up to Address Inter-floor Noise

SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major construction firms are banding together to address inter-floor noise, which has emerged as a major social problem in recent years. Samsung C&T Corp., the construction unit of Samsung Group, announced that it recently signed an agreement with POSCO Engineering & Construction Co. and Lotte Engineering & [...]

DL E&C Commercializes Inter-floor Noise Notification System

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean construction company has launched an inter-floor noise notification system as a way to prevent disputes over noise between floors. DL E&C Co. said Thursday that it had developed an inter-floor noise notification system that can notify the occupants of inter-floor noise and provide objective data. When [...]

Inter-floor Noise Test Made Mandatory After Apartment Construction

SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting in July 2022 at the latest, all construction firms will be required to meet regulations on inter-floor noise before acquiring construction permits. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced Tuesday that it will require construction firms to pass a test to determine how well each floor blocks [...]

New App Offer Solution to Apartment Noise Complaints

SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — While many families leave for their hometown to visit their families during the Lunar New Year holiday, there are many houses full of people gathered to meet relatives and families. Children gathered at their grandparents’ house run around with their cousins filled with joy after receiving pocket money. For [...]

Noise Drives More Apartment Residents to Violence

SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Murder and violence cases stemming from neighbor disputes over floor noise are on the rise in South Korea, where approximately six out of 10 people live in apartments or row houses, according to government data and police on Saturday. Earlier this week, a 50-year-old resident of a studio apartment [...]

Woman Stabbed to Death Over ‘Inter-floor’ Noise

SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Saying “hello” to neighbors may be a relic of a bygone era. But when neighbors start suing each other, or worse, stabbing each other, it’s a whole different story. A 33-year-old man, referred to only as Kim, stabbed an elderly couple that lived upstairs at a 23-storey apartment building [...]

Specialized Design to Reduce Inter-Floor Noise in Apartment Buildings

SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – As the city of Seoul has recently established a ‘Seoul Resident Grievance Center’ at the Seosomun local government office to resolve conflicts between residents due to inter-floor noise in apartment buildings, the construction industry is also coming up with specialized designs to minimize the transmission of noise between floors. According [...]