"'No Second Royal Tomb View' Incident"... 'Integrated Operation of National Land Use Information from Next Year'

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Wanyong] Starting next year, national land use information, which has been operated separately through various systems such as urban planning information and land use, will be integrated and operated.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 18th that the land use-related system integration project, the "National Land Use Information Integrated Platform" (hereinafter referred to as the Integrated Platform), will begin phased operation from next year. The Integrated Platform has been in preparation since 2020 and has been established in 93 out of 229 basic local governments by this year. The final completion is scheduled by 2025.

The Ministry plans to enact and issue the "National Land Use Information Integrated Platform Operation Regulations" within this year to commence operation in local governments where construction has been completed.

Until now, each government ministry and local government has managed urban planning information and regional/district information restricting land use in a distributed manner. As a result, there have been cases of confusion in the field due to missing information in some systems and provision of different information. Last year, the "Royal Tomb View Apartment" incident occurred, where restriction information such as building height was not shared between the Cultural Heritage Administration and local governments, leading to legal disputes.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Land plans to systematically manage urban planning information, which is complex and diverse in regulations and of high interest not only to landowners but also to related industries, through a single integrated platform from the planning stage based on unified standards, and to disclose it in a form that is easy for anyone to use.

High-quality urban planning information, thoroughly managed through a single system, will not only enhance stability from individual real estate transactions to large-scale development projects but is also expected to greatly contribute to the activation of the proptech industry that utilizes land use regulation information such as floor area ratio and building coverage ratio.

In particular, by accumulating a large amount of basic survey results (information in population, economy, society, environment, transportation, housing fields, etc.) that were previously used only once in one place, the utilization of big data in various fields such as urban planning establishment is also anticipated.

Gil Byeong-woo, Director of Urban Policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, "Through the establishment of this Integrated Platform, it is expected that the timeliness and accuracy of national land use information provided to the general public will improve," adding, "Along with the advantage of integrating diverse and complex land use-related information itself, this is an important project expected to create various added values such as exports, so we will continuously strive for information integration and qualitative improvement."

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