Blocked Entrance of Incheon Store Parking Lot and Disappeared... Car Removed After One Week

Parking Lot Entrance Blocked as Parking Fees Begin
"A Suddenly Appeared Manager Demanded Management Fees"

A tenant who had blocked the entrance to a shopping mall parking lot in Incheon with a car and then disappeared removed the vehicle after a week.

Vehicle blocking the entrance to a commercial parking lot in Incheon
Photo by Yonhap News

According to Yonhap News Agency and Incheon Nonhyeon Police Station on the 29th, a man in his 40s identified as A, who is suspected of general traffic obstruction and business obstruction, took away the car he had parked at the entrance of the shopping mall parking lot in Nonhyeon-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon, around midnight that day.

According to police officials, A and his family did not respond to summons but conveyed their intention to "remove the vehicle" around the morning of the 28th.

A police official told Yonhap News Agency, "We plan to coordinate a date soon for A to appear and conduct a detailed investigation regarding the circumstances."

Earlier, starting from around 8:30 a.m. on the 22nd, A had left his vehicle blocking the entrance to the underground parking lot of the shopping mall for a week, effectively sealing off the parking lot.

The police attempted to contact A after receiving reports from the building’s merchants, but when they could not reach him, they applied for an arrest warrant and a vehicle seizure warrant.

However, the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office dismissed the warrants, stating that it was premature to assume A would ignore the summons and that there was no reason to seize the vehicle for the purpose of proving criminal charges.

Warning notice from the management committee posted by a netizen presumed to be Mr. A [Photo by online community]

Police investigations revealed that A is a tenant of the shopping mall, and that he blocked the parking lot after the building management committee installed a parking barrier and began charging parking fees to prevent long-term parking by external vehicles.

A netizen presumed to be A recently posted on an online community under the title "I want to reveal the real story behind the parking lot blocking incident," stating, "The people who appeared as the management committee have never managed the property even once in the past 5 to 6 years."

He added, "The tenants were not even aware that there was a management committee, but suddenly they appeared and demanded payment of management fees, claiming long-term arrears," expressing frustration by saying, "For just one store, if it had been there for 5 years, the management fees would amount to at least 500,000 won per month, totaling 30 million won."

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