“I heard there was ancestral land, so I went to the district office” ... 65-year-old man finds 57,000 pyeong

[Financial News] A man in his 60s who visited a district office in Daegu after hearing that land was registered in his ancestors’ names found a plot covering 57,000 pyeong. The land remained registered in the name of his late father and is reportedly worth more than 100 million won based on its officially assessed value.
According to Daegu Dong-gu and Yonhap News Agency on the 29th, a resident surnamed Seo (65) visited the Land Information Division at Dong-gu Office on the 21st and asked staff to check whether land was registered in his ancestors’ names. At the time, Mr. Seo said, “I heard vaguely that there was ancestral land in Gunwi County, Daegu, but I don’t know its exact location, so please find it for me.”
A staff member at Dong-gu Office searched the records using the “Find Ancestral Land” administrative service and confirmed that a plot in Gunwi County, Daegu, was registered in the name of Mr. Seo’s late father. It covered 188,819 square meters, or about 57,000 pyeong.
The land Mr. Seo found is forest land and is reportedly worth more than 100 million won based on its officially assessed value.
After being told that land registered in his father’s name had been found, Mr. Seo expressed his gratitude, saying, “Thanks to Dong-gu Office, I was able to find valuable property in my late father’s name that I hadn’t known about.”
“Find Ancestral Land” is an administrative service that uses the Land Information System to check, free of charge, for land remaining in the name of a deceased ancestor as well as land owned by the applicant. It is available nationwide.
To use the service, visit the department responsible for cadastral affairs at a nearby city hall, county office, or district office. Applications can also be submitted through the National Spatial Information Integrated Platform.
The documents required for an application depend on when the ancestor died. If the ancestor died before January 1, 2008, a certified copy of the archived family register must be submitted. For deaths on or after that date, a Basic Certificate stating the death and the applicant’s Family Relations Certificate are required.
A Dong-gu Office official, commenting on the case, said, “We will continue to provide careful guidance on the administrative services residents need, from the perspective of each individual resident, and make active efforts to protect residents’ property rights.”


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