2016-12-18 02:19
宅~有何不可
令南韓媽媽做惡夢的電費「炸彈」
The Power "Bomb" That’s Giving a South Korean Mother Nightmares
31-year-old Park Hana says she dreads receiving "poktan" utility receipts at her 83-square-meter home in Gyeonggi province， as the air conditioner roars to shield her toddler from one of the worst heat waves in the North Asian nation.
31歲的樸荷娜（譯音）說，害怕收到電力公司對她位於京畿道的83平方公尺住傢所開立的「炸彈（韓文）」收據，冷氣機轟隆運轉，讓她的稚子倖免於這個北亞國傢史上最大熱浪之一。
Park’s household is among those paying more per unit of power than factories， under a program started during the mid-1970s to encourage then-fledgling industries.
樸荷娜的傢庭就像南韓其他傢庭一樣，支付的每單位電價高於工業用電，這是源自1970年代中期的一項計畫，旨在獎勵該國當時剛萌芽的?業。
"I can’t turn the air conditioner off because my kid won’t be able to sleep， and I can’t resist it either as my whole body soaks with sweat after walking home from work，" Park said. "One night I had a nightmare about receiving my bill that stated I had to pay 3 million won."
她提到，「我沒辦法把冷氣關掉，因為小孩會睡不著，我下班後走路回傢也是滿身汗，一樣忍受不瞭」，「有天夜裏我做瞭關於收到（電費）帳單的惡夢，上面寫說我得付300萬韓圜！」
In South Korea， a policy by the state-owned utility that charges residential customers progressively higher rates as usage increases has fueled protests across Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. Industrial users get a flat rate from Korea Electric Power Corp.， and also pay lesser for their consumption during off-peak hours.
南韓國營電力公司（韓國電力公社）對傢庭用戶的收費是隨著他們用電的增加採取累進費率政策，該政策已激起這個亞洲第四大經濟體各地的抗議。工業用戶則從韓國電力公社獲得均等費率的待遇，且它們在離峰時間的用電享有優惠。