500,000 won per night… Illegal lodging business during the summer vacation season ‘Giseung’

With the holiday season in full swing, illegal accommodations are rampant at summer resorts.

It is to receive guests by decorating apartments or multi-family houses as accommodations.

Safety management is weak, and even if an accident occurs, it is difficult to receive compensation, so caution is required.

Reporter Song Se-hyeok covered the story.

[Reporter]
An apartment by the sea in Gangwon-do.

The enforcement team visited after making a reservation through a shared lodging app.

The bedding is decorated like a pension토토사이트, and the refrigerator is empty.

They were caught doing illegal lodging business for 500,000 won a night. [Kim Bok-hee / Department of Culture and Tourism ,

Donghae-si, Gangwon-do: There is no single alarm type fire detector that is standard because we did not give (permission) to it.]

It is illegal to operate.

It is estimated that there are about 2,000 apartments and multi-family houses operating illegally in Gangwon-do alone.

Especially during the holiday season, it is difficult to find a room, so illegal business is more rampant.

[Unreported pension owner (voice altered): It’s summer, so please don’t look at it.]

Illegal accommodations are inevitably vulnerable to safety accidents because they do not undergo safety inspections.

In fact, three years ago in Donghae City, a gas explosion at an unreported lodging establishment killed seven people, including a family member.

[Kim Hyo-jun / Prevention and Management Division, Donghae-si, Gangwon-do: It is compulsory to install a business report or sign at accommodations and guesthouses. You can check that before using it.]

It seems necessary to supplement the system to check registration in shared lodging apps.

This is YTN Song Se-hyeok.

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