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Various factors in our environment can have a surprisingly negative effect on our psychological well-being by irritating our five senses.
Light, noise, and even odor can inflict severe stress on modern-day citizens.
Oh Junghee reports.
This woman in her twenties - currently living in Sinchon - is planning to move to the outskirts of Seoul.
She often gets stressed because excessive light, noise, and bad smells around her residence in the downtown area make good relaxation impossible.

"I want to have a peaceful rest at home alone during the weekends, but the noise and lights outside my house really don't help. Loud street performances and promotion events using microphones, music at bars... I can hear them all though I live on the 13th floor. I've always wondered if any people would file complaints against these."

We hear noise from construction sites and traffic, we smell trash or cigarettes, we hear music from shops and restaurants, and we see neon signs at night.
These things make up a trivial but consistent portion of our daily lives,... and irritate our senses of sight, smell, and hearing.

According to the National Environmental Conflict Resolution Commission,... noise pollution has been responsible for 85-percent of the environmental conflicts in Korea over the past 15 years,... and the resultant number of conflicts has increased almost threefold during the same period -- from 60 in the year 2000... to 177 in 2015.
Also, data from the city of Seoul, and other local and regional governing bodies... tells us that over 15-thousand odor pollution complaints were filed nationwide just last year.
The number of light pollution complaints has remained at the three-thousand level since 2012.

The phenomenon is called sensory pollution, meaning that our basic senses are affected by human and commercial activities.
But, the difference is,.. sensory pollution has a direct effect on people's mental well-being, rather than their health conditions.

"Complaints filed against these sorts of pollutants are on rise as people yearn for higher living standards. Also, urban areas have become more complicated,.. with new types of infrastructures, facilities, and human activities. Things developed to make life more comfortable and prosperous have led people's senses to be easily tired out."

The expert highlighted that sensory pollution is really a matter of how people feel about things in their daily lives,.. and that standards will have to be newly developed or continuously upgraded to counter complaints against new types of sensory pollution.
Oh Jung-hee, Arirang News.


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