Land order deals with the main contents to whom land ownership should be
belonged and how its contents are consisted. Land ownership has existed in any
system of any time despite of its different contents. In case of land ownership
of Korea, the thought of royal domain has functioned as fundamental thought of
land system. But the thought of Korean land ownership was established by
modern ownership concept of Western concept because colonial government of
Japan obliged to investigate land and the order to Chosun civil code borrowed
Japan civil code. Land reform with Korean Independence that was launched
purposing de-construction of the land ownership plan of landowner and
establishment of independent farmer has been regarded as starting point of
capitalism in Korea. Especially, land reform got the opportunity of substantially
establishing superficial modern land ownership which had been enacted by a
work of inquiry into land ownership and borrowing of Japan civil law. Since
then, modern land ownership has caused many problems in the progress of
present reform land ownership because of political, economical and social
elements in Korea. Especially, the public concept of land ownership, which
urged to convert from the thought of land ownership to the thought of land
available rights, gave considerable changes to the concept of thought of land and
land ownership of Koreans.
In the progress of modernization of Korea from conventional thought of land
ownership through modern land ownership to present reform land ownership, this paper surveyed several relationships between each conversion of land ownership and its legislation.