“Are Their Brains Wired Differently?”...“Staking Out” a Parking Spot with a Shopping Bag in the Middle of the Night [What Do You Think?]

[Financial News] An account of someone witnessing a so-called “new way to reserve a parking spot”—placing a shopping bag in the space instead of a person—has surfaced, sparking outrage online.
A post titled “A New Way to Reserve a Parking Spot: Put Down a Shopping Bag” was recently posted on the social media account of the online community Bobaedream.
The tipster, identified as A, said, “I saw an absurd situation where someone had left a shopping bag in a parking space,” adding, “It seems they put out the shopping bag because if someone reserves a spot, it gets posted online.” The accompanying photo showed a shopping bag placed in the middle of an empty parking space.
Online users who saw the post responded, “Report it for illegal dumping,” “You could report it as lost property and then park there,” “I can’t believe there are still people who do this,” and “It seems like there are more and more people with no common sense.”
This is not the first time someone has reserved a parking spot in advance. On the 2nd, a story about someone reserving a spot in a parking lot with a box, saying they were going to pick up their son, a high school senior, was posted on social media and drew widespread criticism.
Meanwhile, since August, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has been enforcing a revised Enforcement Decree of the Parking Lot Act that imposes administrative fines for obstructing parking.
If someone blocks the entrance to an apartment or commercial parking lot with a vehicle, obstructs other vehicles from entering or exiting, and fails to comply with a manager’s request to move it, the fine is 1 million won for a first offense, 2 million won for a second, and 5 million won for a third or subsequent offense. Parking a vehicle in a free public parking lot for more than a month without a valid reason—the so-called “staking out” of a spot—also carries fines of 300,000 won for a first offense, 500,000 won for a second, and 1 million won for a third.
However, leaving an object to reserve a parking spot, as in this case, is not subject to a fine.
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