SBS' 'I Want to Know That' traces the secrets of young people living alone in a garbage house.
'That's What I Want to Know', which will be broadcast on the 11th, is subtitled 'I live alone in a 'garbage house' – 2024 Youth's Secret Report', and addresses the problems of young people who appear to be working normally but actually fill their homes with trash. Look into.
Last December, an apartment in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do. The police were dispatched to the house where the grandfather lived alone due to a rotten smell. When the front door was opened, trash was piled up to the ceiling like a castle wall. When a special cleaning company representative arrived and removed half of the piled up trash, a body was discovered inside the trash pile. An elderly man who lived alone died after being crushed by the trash he had piled up. It is said that the amount of waste produced from the house reached a whopping 10 tons.
Garbage houses are the so-called 'hoarding disorder' result of some elderly people who compulsively collect even unnecessary items. However, according to many special cleaning company officials, most of the cleaning clients these days are young people in their 20s and 30s who live as single-person households in a studio. Surprisingly, 90% of them are women, and it is said that there are many in good occupations such as doctors, lawyers, producers, and teachers. How do young people who seem to be fine outside the house get to the point where they can't clean their own house?
The house of Kim Eun-ji (pseudonym), a woman in her 30s whom the production team of 'I Want to Know' met, also had a huge mountain of trash spreading out from the front door. Everything except the bed was clogged with trash, making it difficult to get in and out of the bathroom, and hygiene was so bad that cockroaches were found along with the food waste. She is said to be very tidy outside the house, but her parents and acquaintances have not known the secret of the garbage house for three years.
Lee Ha-na (pseudonym)'s house was filled with delivery boxes right from the entrance, leaving no room for movement. Numerous packages that were purchased years ago and never opened blocked the path to the kitchen, and the master bedroom was occupied by delivery food containers. When she first moved in, she cooked food and invited friends over. However, due to an incident that occurred four years ago, she was unable to have a proper social life and spent most of her time lying in the trashed house. What on earth happened to her?
Unlike the hoarding disorder of older people who collect too much stuff and it ends up becoming trash, the garbage houses of young people are where real trash is accumulating from the beginning. There is a rapid increase in the number of young people who are acting normally on the outside, but are actually filling their homes with trash.
'I Want to Know', which will trace the secrets of the youth of this era who live alone in a trash house, will be broadcast at 11:10 pm on the 11th.
(SBS Entertainment News Reporter Kang Seon-ae)
