Improving Policy for Apartment Noise of Residential Facilities in South Korea

Concerning the issue about apartment noise, Korean government unveiled its effort to "relieve elimination disturbances of apartment noise" as one of the 100 Policy Tasks. The Ministry of the Environment in Korea reflected strengthening of apartment noise management as part of the "Strengthening life-friendly management about noise and vibration". Therefore, it is imperative to conduct research for mitigating the apartment noise disturbances in order to support the policy issues. Therefore, this study, with the purpose of improving current apartment noise-related policy in Korea, proposes improving measures in structural regulation focused on the residential facilities so as to prevent apartment noise, and the post-management scheme that enables local government to play pivotal role.