The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will introduce guidelines to drastically shorten the land compensation process, which has long been cited as a major cause of delays in national highway construction projects. The goal is to cut the average compensation period, which used to take 22 months, by more than six months.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) said on the 3rd that it prepared the National Highway Construction Project Land Compensation Work Guidelines and distributed them to related agencies, including local governments and public institutions.
Until now, the compensation process before the start of national highway construction had taken an average of 22 months. Repeated surveys due to boundary mismatches between design drawings (topographic maps) and compensation drawings (cadastral maps), and delays in consultations with related agencies, were cited as the main causes.
In fact, a study by the Jeonbuk National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation found that a significant portion of the compensation period was spent on adjusting drawing errors and administrative procedures.
The new guidelines include: ◇ preemptively resolving drawing errors by preparing a cadastral overlay at the design stage and conducting preliminary cadastral status surveys ▲ expanding collaboration with specialized institutions such as the Korea Real Estate Board (KREB) and LX Corporation, and expanding entrusted compensation ▲ clarifying the division of work across the design, surveying, and compensation stages.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) plans to systematize the compensation process and clarify the roles among public institutions to reduce on-site confusion.