Guri City Completes Korean Translation Project of 'Old Land Register' from 100 Years Ago

Completion of Korean Translation Project for 19,153 Pages of Old Land Registers

Guri City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Baek Kyung-hyun) announced on the 2nd that it has completed the Hangul conversion project for 19,153 pages of the old (舊) land registers created over 100 years ago in Chinese characters.

Guri City has completed the project of converting 19,153 old land registers, created over 100 years ago in Chinese characters, into Hangul. Provided by Guri City

The old (舊) land register is a permanent preservation document that allows verification of changes in the location, lot number, land category, area, and status of landowners. It is an important cadastral record used as basic data for overall land administration tasks such as land ownership disputes, ancestral land searches, and registration corrections.

However, the old (舊) land registers created during the Japanese land survey project in 1910 were written in Japanese era names such as Meiji (明治), Taisho (大正), and Showa (昭和), and in Chinese characters, making character identification difficult and understanding the content challenging.

Accordingly, the city undertook a project to transcribe the entire content of the old (舊) land registers, originally written in Chinese characters, into Hangul so that anyone can easily understand the information.

Mayor Baek Kyung-hyun of Guri said, “With the completion of this Hangul conversion project for the land registers, we hope to resolve the inconveniences citizens have faced due to Chinese characters and Japanese-style notations.” He added, “This is expected to be an opportunity for cadastral administrative services to take a step forward.”

For more details, please contact the Cadastral Information Team of the Land Information Division at Guri City Hall.