South Korean Woman Rescued from Apartment Filled with Hoarded Trash

This is some crazy hoarding going on in Songtan:

A woman was rescued from a house crammed to the ceiling with discarded goods collected from the streets, police said Tuesday.

Rescue workers found the woman, 79, slumped in a trash-packed room after they struggled through tons of hoarded items on Friday.

They took nearly 40 minutes to reach her just meters away from the entrance, Yonhap News Agency reports, citing rescuers. She was taken to a hospital, and has recovered.

For five years, the son had habitually brought home abandoned clothes, paper boxes, plastic bottles and other items, filling the 42-square-meter dwelling to the ceiling with what neighbors called “trash.” Police said the woman lived with her only son, 58, who had a hoarding disorder, in Songtan, Gyeonggi Province.  [Korea Times]

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