Jeonnam Province Completes Conversion of Cadastral Records to 'International Standards'... Eradicating Remnants of Japanese Colonial Rule

[Muan=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Jeonnam Province announced on the 4th that it has completed a project to convert the Japanese Tokyo-centered surveying coordinate system used since the Japanese colonial period into the international standard global coordinate system, thereby eradicating remnants of Japanese colonial rule.

The international standard conversion project was carried out for 5.42 million land parcels in the coastal area. This is the largest volume of work nationwide.

Since 1910, during the Japanese colonial period, Korea used the Tokyo Datum geodetic system as the surveying standard. Because of this, there was a deviation of about 365 meters to the southeast from the global standard coordinates, causing various land discrepancies.

To resolve this deviation, Jeonnam Province was the first in the nation to start the global geodetic coordinate conversion project in 2013, converting the coordinate system used only by Korea and Japan into a globally shared international standard geodetic system without regional errors.

This project is a legal obligation that must be completed by this year.

From the beginning of the project, verification and maintenance were repeatedly conducted to ensure highly reliable conversion results, and management was carried out to prevent any issues in cadastral surveying and global geodetic coordinate conversion.

Moreover, by establishing digital cadastral information and facilitating convergence with various spatial information, residents can now utilize a better spatial information system.

Kim Jin-hyung, head of the Jeonnam Province Cadastral Re-survey Team, said, “We expect to complete the eradication of Japanese colonial remnants that occupied the national land and secure the accuracy of cadastral surveying, contributing to the protection of residents’ property rights. We will also promptly complete the global geodetic coordinate conversion for areas with registered boundary point coordinates.”

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