Achievements of the Old Land Register Koreanization Digital Construction Project…Increased Utilization by Provincial Residents

Chungcheongnam-do announced on the 13th that the 'Old Land Register Koreanization Digital Construction Project', which was the first of its kind in the nation, is achieving practical results as the public's access to land register information and its use for civil complaints have significantly increased.

According to the province, as of the first half of this year, the total number of uses of old land register digital data was recorded as 33,542 cases.

Among these, 15,205 cases, accounting for half of the total, were for civil complaint processing purposes such as registration entrustment (9,213 cases), civil issuance (3,284 cases), and finding ancestral land (2,708 cases). The remaining 18,337 cases were used for administrative tasks, including land record error investigations.

The performance in the first half of this year significantly exceeded half of last year's total of 40,967 cases*, and for civil complaint processing purposes, it has already surpassed last year's total. *2024 Utilization Performance: 40,967 cases (Registration Entrustment 1,175, Civil Issuance 2,948, Finding Ancestral Land 2,520, Administrative Tasks 34,324 cases)

This is analyzed as a result of making the difficult-to-read old land registers available in Korean and digitized, so that anyone can easily use them.

The old land register Koreanization digital construction project, promoted as a multi-year project from 2021 to last year, involved converting 3.136 million sheets of land registers prepared during the Japanese colonial period into Korean and digitizing them. The core of this project was to resolve inconveniences caused by the aging and damage of records and Japanese expressions, and to lay the foundation for the restoration of property rights for provincial residents.

As a result of this project, the actual administrative processing period was shortened from an average of 2 days to 0.5 days, and the utilization as legal and administrative evidentiary materials for finding ancestral land, land-related lawsuits, and registration applications has also greatly improved.

The province plans to continuously improve the system by gathering inconveniences from cities and counties regarding system operation and finding ways to operate it more conveniently, such as through functional advancements.

Lim Taek-bin, head of the provincial Land Management Division, stated, "The old land register Koreanization digital construction project is not just a simple record organization; it is a representative example of administrative innovation for liquidating remnants of Japanese colonial rule and protecting the rights of provincial residents. We will continue to develop it so that provincial residents can easily access information."