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The Evolution of Korean Land Policies since Independence, 1948~2008

  • Korea Real Estate Review
  • 2010, 20(1), pp.281-306
  • Publisher : korea real estate research institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law > Law of Special Parts > Law of Real Estate

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ABSTRACT

The paper reviews 60 years' historical evolution of Korean land policies since independence in 1948. Major attention is paid to the role of the capitalist state's land policies in pursuing both economic accumulation and political legitimacy. The agrarian reform and land readjustment of the 1950s affected the construction of the national economic base after the liberalization from Japanese colonization and reconstruction from the Korean War. The land policies in the 1960s were designed to implement the labor-intensive industrialization, and that of the 1970s contributed to the transformation of the industrial structure to the heavy & chemical industrialization. The public-managed land development scheme (gongyeong gaebal) and Public Concept of Land Policies (toji gong-gaenyeom) in the 1980s were to stabilize land market. Various deregulation programs in the 1990s were to strengthen the national competitiveness in the era of globalization and to overcome foreign currency crisis. Major policies in the 2000s focussed on pursuing sustainable development and enhancing transparency of real estate market, which reflect the impact of democracy, informatization and globalization.

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