It took 4 days for me to scour internet forums dedicated to the gated apartment complex and to store opinions related to gating. Originally I thought it would be finished within a day but I turned out to be very wrong. There was a surprising amount of exchange on gating in the forum. It would have taken more if I had had access to restricted area of the forum.
The result is a 143 page long word document including images as well as text. There has been extensive talks in the forum on vandalism, measures to protect the apartment complex, execution methods of gating and evaluation of gating.
The main idea that I've got from this extensive information is that Korean planning system of apartment complexes have problems in harmonizing private and public interests. The apartment complex in question has a central road which can be used as a shortcut for outside residents to use subway and commercial area. Although the public interest of this road could be expected from the design stage, this road was left in the very center of private territory. Unfortunately, the residents couldn't tolerate extra maintenance caused by vandalism of outsiders and increased transit traffic. The result was the first case of gating of a large apartment complex in Korea.
The main culprit of gating in this case seems to be the planning practice of annihilating public roads and to create a super sized private block. No one wants to make detours especially in on foot while the occupiers of super blocks don't want presence of outsiders in their private domain. Allowing super sized private islands can't help creating conflict between the public and private interests.
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