Recently, the procedure of cadastral works has been totally changed due to the development of cadastral system and technology. Moreover, as the value of real estate has become higher and land development has been promoted nationwide, the demands for various land information services are being increased. In consequence, the cadastral fee system and its application has become a bigger issue than the past.
Current cadastral survey fee is fixed accordance with Government's Standard Price List for Procurement(GSPLP) and annually announced officially.
The cadastral survey fees have been fixed to lower than 60% of estimated cost by the government. It is lower than the customer price increase rate to follow the government's policy for pegging the prices of Korea. Besides, GSPLP done with 30-year-old technology and equipment are still applied in spite of entirely computerized cadastral system.
The purpose of this study is to present realistic solutions of the cadastral survey fee system through analyzing application problems. Both a positive study based on various statistic materials and a theoretical study through related papers and scientific journals were executed for this study. Additionally, the opinions from cadastral survey organizations were collected and reflected. As a result of the examinations, the problems have been found as follows.
Firstly, the cadastral survey fees have been unreasonably fixed to lower than 60% of estimated cost by the government in accordance with the price policy.
Secondly, the cadastral survey fee system is so complicated that the applications have not been appropriate in some districts with multi-attributes.
Thirdly, cadastral survey fees have been graded according to only the degrees of difficulties, so the grading factors should be extended to the characteristic of land, prices of buildings, division of areas on purpose and the number of boundary points of boundary survey.
Fourthly, the cadastral survey fee system is being calculated by GSPLP released in 1977, so it is totally out of date and far away from present computerized survey system.
The principles to solve the problems above are presented as follows, referring to the results of examining foreign and domestic cases and actual conditions of cadastral works.
First of all, it should be realistic solutions based on trust and transparency. The procedure of deciding fees should be applied scientifically and rationally for improving the cadastral system.
Secondly, the complicated application system should be simplified to three levels which are numerical value, land and forest. On the other hand, the survey fee system should be integrated to two levels according to the administrative district system.
Thirdly, the fees are should be decided considering the price and category of the land and, in case of boundary survey, the number of boundary points.
Fourthly, the factors of deciding cadastral fee are definite through making a new GSPLP and category for the new works caused by executing the computerization of the system.
This study presents the solutions for improvement derived from investigation and analysis. Besides, the suggestions of the related policies are also given and furthermore, the proposals for the next study mission are presented in this paper as well.
For the rational and realistic cadastral survey fee system in the future, the decision factors and the customers' share of the payment should be reasonable. It will contribute to the improvement of the service quality and the development of the cadastral system in Korea.