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still many households use LP gas because there is no city gas supply.

It is said that even if you try to supply it, you often run into barriers, but reporter Ahn Hee-jae asked if there is a solution.

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75-year-old Wu Gongshin, who lives in
Chuncheon, has been cooking with LP gas for decades.

It costs about 4,4 won per barrel, but no matter how sparingly you spend, it costs hundreds of thousands of won a year.

(Do it all by hand....) Yes, you have to do it by hand.]

With an apartment complex across the street, there was great hope that city gas would be available, but little progress has been made for nearly a year.

To pull the gas pipeline, you have to go through private property, and you're having trouble getting owner consent.

[Wukongshin/Resident: He was walking around and signing it, because all of a sudden he said no...]

LPG is more than twice as expensive as city gas, and the number of casualties from various accidents was three times higher last year.

Even so, there are a total of 1.1 million households without city gas, or 2% of the total.

In particular, Gangwon Province had a penetration rate of only 372.15%, and most of the provinces were significantly lower than the metropolitan area.

Even though it is a public road, there are various reasons why the landowner does not allow the installation of plumbing, such as the number of land owners and the failure to obtain consent from each of the more than 55 owners.

[Kim Se-yeon/Nam-gu, Busan (Non-supply of city gas): Some people have died, some have handed over to their children, but their children have gone abroad and they cannot contact them...]

An amendment to the law giving permission to install pipes was proposed last year, and the Ministry of Industry recognized the necessity, but it has not crossed the threshold of the Standing Committee.

This is because it restricts fundamental rights to private property.

[Rep. Park So-young/People's Power: We are being discriminated against because we cannot use clean and cheap energy called city gas. If the benefits are much greater, it is a fundamental right that can be reserved by law...]

There is likely to be litigation with the land owner, and there are concerns that the authority is too concentrated on the governor, so it is likely that fierce discussions will continue over the passage of the amendment.

(Video Interview: Kim Hak-mo and Lee Yong-han, Video Editing: Kim Jong-mi)