Manual Processing of Economic Free Zone Authority's Building Administration Becomes Simplified

On the 1st, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that starting from the 2nd, nine Economic Free Zone Authorities nationwide will also provide architectural administrative services using the cloud-based architectural administration system, 'Cloud Seumteo.'

Until now, architectural permit civil complaints in the Economic Free Zone Authorities faced difficulties due to inefficiencies such as requiring citizens to visit in person and process paperwork manually, as the existing architectural administration system (Seumteo) was not established there, unlike other local governments.

Going forward, architectural administrative services through Seumteo will be launched in the Economic Free Zone Authorities as well, which is expected to enhance convenience in architectural administration and enable faster processing of tasks.

It is anticipated that the processing of civil complaints such as applications for building, major repairs, and change of use permits, applications for architectural agreement approval, approval for the establishment of housing cooperatives, and applications for structural safety review and re-review by the architectural committee will be expedited.

The government introduced the world's first computerized architectural administration system (Seumteo) in 2008, achieving results such as reducing the civil complaint processing period from the previous 60 days to 15 days. However, since the computerized system was built with each local government maintaining and managing it independently, differences in system performance and issues such as system aging occurred among local governments.

Accordingly, from 2019 to this year, a project has been underway to completely overhaul and convert Seumteo into a cloud-based integrated management system.

The current project targeting the Economic Free Zone Authorities is also part of the Cloud Seumteo conversion project.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that through last year's Cloud Seumteo conversion project, they completed ▲ support for online review meetings ▲ expansion of the scope for online issuance of building register drawings ▲ support for civil complaints related to vacant houses and small-scale maintenance projects.

Lee Jin-cheol, Director of the Architectural Policy Division at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, stated, "Other local governments nationwide using the existing architectural administrative services also plan to complete the transition to Cloud Seumteo by the end of this year," adding, "We also plan to promote tasks such as establishing an architectural hub to create new data industries utilizing architectural information."

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