Enhancing Expertise in Public Project Compensation... Seoul Launches "Seoul Compensation School"

Education Program Launched for Public Project Officials and Implementers

The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 11th that it will launch the "Seoul Compensation School," a program aimed at enhancing expertise in the public project compensation system for government officials, the general public, and project implementers.

Seoul Mayor Oh Sehoon is inspecting the demolition situation during his visit to Baeksa Village in Nowon-gu, Seoul on the 9th. Baeksa Village, known as the last shantytown in Seoul, is scheduled to complete demolition by December and aims for occupancy in 2029. 2025.09.09 Photo by Yoon Dongjoo

The city will operate the "Seoul Compensation School" on the 16th at the Grand Auditorium of the Korea Association of Property Appraisers in Bangbae-dong, Seocho District. This training is not just a practical workshop, but aims to build the future infrastructure of compensation administration.

The curriculum includes administrative practices related to compensation work, understanding of the Land Compensation Act and basic surveys, practical cases of negotiated compensation, and procedures and cases of expropriation decisions. The program focuses on enhancing preventive dispute management capabilities through interpretation of laws, precedents, expropriation cases, and real-life dispute scenarios.

The city introduced the Seoul Compensation School to manage conflicts arising in the public project compensation process through a preventive education system, rather than simply resolving them after the fact. The goal is to strengthen the expertise of public project implementers and the Land Expropriation Committee, protect citizens' property rights, and minimize lawsuits caused by the fault of project implementers.

Going forward, Seoul plans to regularize the Compensation School, subdivide it into modular courses such as beginner and advanced levels, and develop it into an open education platform. This will allow not only practitioners such as government officials, public enterprises, and general business operators, but also representatives such as property appraisers and lawyers, as well as citizens who are eligible for compensation, to participate in online lectures.

Cho Namjun, Director of the Urban Space Headquarters of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, said, "The Compensation School will go beyond simple training to become a 'trust platform' for the compensation system," adding, "By systematically accumulating compensation expertise through future-oriented education systems such as online learning modules, we will establish a compensation system that robustly protects citizens' rights and interests."