Sunbeams cause $ 3 million fine for IT giant in South Korea
South Korea's largest IT company Naver will pay a multi-million dollar fine for sunbeams from the mirrored windows of the office, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes.
Residents of several houses located opposite the company's building in Seoul filed a lawsuit in court back in 2016. They complained about glare from the windows of the 28-story corporate headquarters, which prevents them from living normally in their apartments. The company stubbornly refused to acknowledge the correctness of the townspeople, and they had to go through several judicial instances up to the Supreme Court of the republic.
The court pointed out that reflections from the glass of the Naver office significantly exceed the norm, which reduces the quality of life of people in nearby homes, ordered the company to pay 68 plaintiffs more than three million dollars and eliminate the problem of glare.
The ruling is considered important in South Korea, where a large number of “glass” high-rise buildings pose similar problems for people living next to them. In a number of cases, residents have applied to the courts and have already achieved that the defendants installed blinds on their windows or applied an anti-reflective coating to them.
Earlier, a 300-meter SEG Plaza skyscraper banked in Shenzhen, China. The people inside the building felt the movement and hurried to leave it. Nobody was hurt as a result of the incident. According to experts, the reason for what happened could be a sagging foundation.
