When consideration fails, many sleep-deprived South Korean urban dwellers give their upstairs neighbors a creative earful of their own cacophony. Advertisement“At the end of the day, noise is about emotions,” said Lee Seung-tae, an attorney specializing in housing and urban issues. “They were so inconsiderate.”After eight months of bearing it, she bought a $2 rubber mallet and took to retaliating every time she heard loud noises. He compiled a few hours of sounds he knew would get his upstairs neighbors’ attention: audio highlights from porn he downloaded online. He faced years-long tensions with his upstairs neighbors, who had three children.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 30, 2021 10:02 UTC