The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will hold a joint seminar with the Korean Society of Land and Urban Planning and the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements on the 25th to seek strategies for the sustainable development of the territory.
According to the ministry on the 24th, this seminar, held at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements located in Bangok-dong, Sejong City, is designed to discuss key issues in the fields of land, transport, and environment as the ministry officially begins preparations for the '5th Comprehensive National Territory Plan Revision (2026-2040)' this year. Through this discussion, the aim is to enhance the connectivity between various plans in the process of re-establishing major transport network plans such as roads and railways and the national comprehensive environmental plan.
The seminar will begin with presentations from research institutions on new concepts for reshaping land space, including the formation of multi-layered land spaces, the metropolitan railway axis for the creation of super-sized mega-cities, and integrated management plans for land and environmental planning, followed by expert discussions.
The Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements will present a strategy for forming multi-layered spaces leading to 'super-regional, urban, and regional living zones' to strengthen the competitiveness of land and ensure balanced quality of life, as well as major issues and strategies to be discussed in the revision of the comprehensive national territory plan, including the creation of regional innovation hubs and a super-regional transport network.
The Korea Transport Institute will explain the discovery plan for the metropolitan railway axis to create 'one-hour living zones' through the analysis of commuting behaviors and major hubs in super-regions. The Korea Environment Institute will review the achievements of integrated management of land (urban) planning and environmental planning thus far and present development plans for integrated management of land and environment that include strengthening spatial policies for energy conservation and climate risk management, contributing to a carbon-neutral land environment.
Chung Chang-moo, an emeritus professor at Seoul National University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will introduce land space concepts to broaden the horizon of land planning, including the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, the emergence of new transportation means like urban air mobility (UAM) and hyperloop, and the construction of multidimensional networks in space and the Arctic.
Lee Sang-joo, head of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's Urban Planning Division, noted, 'This year marks an important time for the revision of the 5th Comprehensive National Territory Plan, along with the establishment of various long-term plans related to land space, including major transport network plans.' He added, 'The future environmental changes of the territory will unfold in very diverse and complex ways, so we will strive to ensure that land planning and policies can flexibly respond to future environmental changes by listening to the opinions of experts in various fields such as urban development, transport, industry, environment, and science and technology and through close communication.'