“I used even the grave without the owner”… LH employees are surprised by experts

Input 2021.03.20 06:00 | Revision 2021.03.20 08:58

Over the suspicion of land speculation by employees of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), experts are speaking out, saying, “Excellent skill.” Although the methods used are very diverse, each one is a ‘a number of gods’ aiming for gaps in the regulations. However, besides the method they used, the tricks of the so-called players who practiced’ground speculation’ were endless. They use other people’s graves to receive rewards, and they also use ducks and dogs. I looked at the spirit of speculation.

◇ Even if you receive hundreds of millions of dollars as someone else’s grave

According to the real estate industry on the 20th, large-scale housing site development is usually done on blind land or farmland. In the case of farmland, an agricultural management plan (farming plan) must be submitted to the local government when acquiring it pursuant to Article 6, Paragraph 1 of the Farmland Act, which stipulates the principle of light-free farming (only those who actually farmer can own farmland). do. LH employees reported that they would cultivate rice, sweet potatoes, and corn in paddy fields and fields after purchasing farmland in the new city’s planned land.



Tree saplings are planted on land suspected of speculation by LH employees in Guarim-dong, Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do/Yonhap News

Even if it wasn’t farmland, if there was a smokeless tomb (無緣墳墓) with no offspring or people to manage it, they lied to claim the share of the land. It is a technique to deceive the unleaded tombs in the development target site as if they were family tombs and earn compensation. In this case, not only the compensation, but also the tomb relocation and subsidies can be paid, and this amount can reach a maximum of several hundred million won.

Already in 2012, an LH employee handed over the location of 81 unleaded tombs to a broker and received 26 million won in return, and was sentenced to imprisonment. The broker is reported to have received a previous compensation of 350 million won by mobilizing fake survivors. In the Gwangmyeong and Siheung new towns where suspicion arose this time, it is known that some realtors split the land filled with graveyards and sell them.

Once the land is secured, the’split’ and’merge’ work begins to change the land stake to maximize compensation.

Splitting shares usually refers to the behavior of dividing the shares of a building or land and receiving a lot of compensation for apartment sales or land when developing. Some of the LH employees suspected of speculation split the purchased land into 1,000 square meters. This is because 1000㎡ is the minimum standard for receiving LH compensation.

According to the current regulations, if you receive land over 1000m2 from the date of the announcement related to the development, you can receive compensation for land or apartment occupancy rights. The site of about 5000m2, which is suspected of speculation at the site of the new city of Siheung and Gwangmyeong, was divided into 4 zones of 1000m2. In this case, the number of pre-sale tickets will be increased to four. Suspected cases of’split’ have also been confirmed in other 3rd new city planned sites such as Goyang Changneung.

Lands of less than 1000 square meters met the standard through’joining’. At the projected mini-new town in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, LH employees, along with two other people, purchased three parcels, including two 517 m2 lots and one 208 m2 lot, for 1.2 billion won. Two months later, they combined three parcels into one to create 1350㎡ of land. The industry understands this as a work to exceed the compensation standard of 1000㎡.

◇ Plant trees and raise dogs to get additional rewards

Speculators try to add value through additional investments once the size and shape of the land has been determined. This is because the value of the land to be rewarded must be high to receive more rewards. In particular, if you have been making profits on land, you must compensate for the profits according to the Land Compensation Act. It is at this point that the’dragon willow’, commonly known as the king willow, which has gained popularity from time to time, appears.

LH employees reported that they would cultivate rice and corn on farmland through the farming plan, but in reality they planted seedlings such as willows and emerald greens. This is because trees such as willows have a much higher reward value than crops such as rice.

When appraising for tree compensation, appraisers refer to the Public Procurement Service’s’landscape tree unit price list’. Therefore, it is advantageous to choose a tree that can overestimate the compensation amount because the unit price of the Public Procurement Service is set high or because it is a rare species that is not registered on the unit price list. It is also important to have a large number of trees because the reward is twice the cost of transplanting per tree per week. In addition, growing taller and thicker can make the transplant cost more expensive.

Dragon willows are a species that almost completely meets this condition. The seedlings are only around 3,000 won per tree, but they are resistant to diseases and pests and grow rapidly without special management. Although there are variations depending on the conditions of these grown willows, their value rises to a maximum of tens of thousands of won even after 2-3 years.

In order to properly grow willow trees, it is known that it is appropriate to plant about 1 per 3.3㎡. However, LH staff planted closely 20 willows per square meter. Still, the willow tree was growing without a large crowd. It is estimated that the compensation price for the willows planted in the area of ​​the Gwangmyeong and Siheung new towns is approximately 8,7 billion won.

In addition to trees, animals and green houses are also mobilized. When land compensation in Wirye New Town was achieved in 2010, LH detected 1,700 plastic greenhouses for speculation in Wirye New Town and 8,000 beehives that were brought in without permission.

In the Mass, Gamil, and Gambuk districts, 770 illegal installations aimed at compensation for land, 921 chickens, 640 dogs, and 504 ducks were detected. The current regulation is to compensate for the cost of livestock loss and relocation, along with land prices, if you raise more than 200 chickens, 20 dogs, and 50 ducks, like compensation for the cost of transplanting trees.



An underground water facility installed in December of last year on the land of Noonsa-dong purchased by a public official in Gwangmyeong-si, Gyeonggi-do. Next to it is a green house, which seems to be not long ago. This is the place where Lee officials acquired 1,322㎡ of field last year./Yonhap News

◇ If’indirect compensation’ is received, speculation is complete

In addition to this, there are more rewards for pre-speculation. ▲Residential land for migrants ▲Life measures ▲Indirect compensation such as negotiated transferable land.

The’Residential Site for Migrants’ is a housing site that can be obtained by residents who have owned a house one year before the public announcement date (announcement date) of the new city’s planned site. This seems to be the reason why LH employees built temporary prefabricated houses, commonly referred to as’honeycombs’. In particular, these houses are strongly suspicious of speculation because they do not have water or electricity.

The’living plan land’ is to give preferential pre-sale rights to commercial lands that can make a living for those who have lost their means of living due to land acceptance. You can get a new town shopping street at a lower price than a regular sale price, but there are suspicions that it was because of the living measure paper that LH employees built a green house that they would not use.

‘Conventional transferable land’ is a kind of the right to purchase detached housing land provided by a landlord with 1,000㎡ of land actively paying for land compensation. In exchange for accommodating the house and land, you can receive cash compensation, and a portion of this will be pre-sale for multi-family housing or single-family housing where you can build a commercial house. In this case, it is possible to buy land in a new city at a low price and resell the land, so real estate experts believe that there are many who have ventured into speculation aiming at the negotiated transferable land.

Sim Gyo-eon, a professor at Konkuk University’s Department of Real Estate, said, “The current development practice stems from the laws and systems created at the National Security Legislative Assembly in the 1980s.” He said, “The main thing is secrecyism that enforces acceptance after a’don’t ask decision’. Even if the business schedule is delayed a little, it is necessary to consider introducing the principle of business openness so that transparency and compensation can be justified.” .

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