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.