Banpo Raemian One Bailey Apartment... Why Did the Glass Window Crack?

At 'Raemian One Bailey,' the new flagship apartment in the Banpo area, defects involving broken window glass have occurred repeatedly.

There are claims that the number of defective units, initially only 10, has increased to 30.

Windows that showed no issues during preliminary inspections began to break later, leading to interpretations that there might be a structural problem with the apartment. It is suggested that the design, including inter-floor pressure, was flawed from the start.

Resident A witnessed the living room window shatter with a bang just five days after moving in, despite the window being intact at move-in.

Another resident, B, confirmed no defects during the preliminary inspection and proceeded with move-in cleaning, only to have the living room window break. The shattered glass fragments entered the room, nearly causing a serious accident.

As accidents continued, a union official sent a message to residents stating, "Glass breakage defects occur early on at any site and are unrelated to the window frames. It is merely a defect with KCC glass," adding, "Now that we have entered a certain stabilization phase, breakage defects are hardly occurring."

However, an industry insider said, "Since glass windows undergo performance testing, it is very rare for them to break without external stimuli."

Panpo One Bailey Panorama [Photo by Asia Economy DB]

Issues related to windows in this complex have been raised since 2021. This is because a newly established small company with no construction order record was selected. As the housing types became larger, window sizes also increased, but it was pointed out that the window size was insisted to be 3.6m to select the German company Propain, which only had 3.6m windows, and the construction company.

A union member criticized, "They promoted that the triple-glazed windows could withstand any typhoon, so how could such a thing happen?"

One Bailey signaled the start of the 10 billion KRW era in Banpo, with a 200㎡ exclusive-use type moving-in right sold for 10 billion KRW earlier this year.

In the first priority subscription in 2021, 36,116 people applied for 224 households, recording an average competition rate of 161.2 to 1. At that time, the sale price was 56.68 million KRW per 3.3㎡ under the price ceiling system. It was called a lottery subscription because it was about half the price compared to surrounding market prices.

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