The Seoul city government announced on the 27th that it has conducted a detailed survey of land records from the Japanese colonial period to the present, uncovering a total of 100 billion won worth of municipal property.
This survey was conducted to comprehensively analyze land records from the past to the present to prevent cases of municipal property being omitted or left unattended due to discrepancies in registration and classification during various development projects.
The uncovered municipal property consists of 687 areas totaling 840,000 square meters designated for use discontinuation and 15,000 square meters of illegally cultivated and greenhouse-occupied land.
Based on the results of this survey, the Seoul city government will revise the system for municipal property regarding omissions and discrepancies. The city's land management department has constructed a 'detailed survey (measurement) register' to be used by the property management department for use discontinuation, jurisdiction determination, property registration, and other practical applications.
Additionally, through the local government property deliberation council, administrative properties that do not serve administrative purposes will be discontinued to prevent disputes during future development negotiations. For unauthorized occupation, the plan is to manage municipal property by imposing compensation and issuing restoration orders.
Furthermore, the Seoul city government has been promoting the 'Finding Unregistered Land Municipal Property Project' since last year, uncovering 12 parcels of undeveloped land valued at approximately 1 billion won according to the official land price standards that were omitted during past land readjustment projects, totaling 855 square meters. Undeveloped land refers to land that the Seoul city government (the project implementer) did not designate as a fee land during project funding. This land existed within the area of the land readjustment projects conducted from 1937 to 1991 but was omitted from designation at the time.
Jo Nam-jun, head of the urban space headquarters of the Seoul city government, said, 'We will continue to conduct records-based detailed surveys through inter-departmental collaboration to systematically manage local government property and enhance administrative reliability.'