Why Did Yudonggyun, Mayor of Mapo-gu, Personally Collect Hot Water from the Hot Water Tank?

Request for Component Analysis to the Health and Environment Research Institute to Alleviate Resident Inconvenience and Anxiety... Efforts to Prevent Phenol Damage Including Recommendation of Replacement Work to the Residents' Representative Meeting

Yoo Dong-gyun, Mayor of Mapo District, is collecting hot water from the hot water tank.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Mapo-gu (Mayor Yoo Dong-gyun) requested the Health and Environment Research Institute to analyze the components due to concerns for the safety of residents in an apartment in Seongsan-dong who have been suffering from phenol detected in the hot water.

Mayor Yoo Dong-gyun of Mapo-gu personally went to the site to collect hot water samples from the necessary hot water tanks.

At apartment A in Seongsan-dong, Mapo-gu, residents reported discomfort due to a foul odor when using hot water, and subsequent water quality tests detected phenol, causing significant anxiety among many residents.

Regarding the replacement of the apartment’s hot water tank, which is seen as a fundamental solution to the phenol detection issue, the district initially recommended the urgent replacement construction to the apartment residents' representative meeting amid conflicting opinions among residents.

Nevertheless, when the urgent construction agenda was rejected by the residents' representative meeting, residents suffering from the phenol-contaminated hot water held several protests and demanded the tank replacement from the residents' representative meeting.

According to the affected apartment residents, phenol has been detected since the internal coating work on the hot water tank was carried out in November last year, leading them to suspect this work as the cause of the phenol detection; however, the exact cause has not yet been identified.

The district hopes that the component analysis by the Health and Environment Research Institute will bring them one step closer to identifying the cause.

Mayor Yoo Dong-gyun of Mapo-gu stated, “Even though hot water is not considered drinking water, its use is closely related to daily life, so for the safety of residents, the residents' representative meeting should take active measures such as immediately replacing the hot water tank.”

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