A Study on the Compensation System for the Construction of Transmission and Conversion Facilities in Japan
Authors:   Korean Public Land Law Association, Choi Cholho 
Published: December 2022

Residents’ damage caused by the construction of transmission and substation facilities can be largely divided into property damage, environmental damage, and health damage. Among them, landscape damage, environmental damage, and a decrease in the transaction value of adjacent land due to the construction of transmission and transmission facilities are becoming a major problem. Of course, residents also claim damage from electromagnetic waves. The construction compensation system for transmission and substation facilities consists of steel tower compensation under the Electricity Business Act, transmission line site compensation, property compensation under the Songju Act, housing purchase compensation, and resident support system. In addition, there are compensations set by the Land Compensation Regulations, which are the internal standards of KEPCO, and the practical standards for appraisal. In the transmission and transmission facility compensation system, the future value of land is already indirectly reflected through the three-dimensional use inhibition rate and the additional correction rate. In order to rationalize the compensation system for transmission and transmission facilities, it is required to unify distributed acceptance and compensation regulations. In addition, the Land Compensation Regulations, which take into account exceptions arising from compensation practice, require agreement with the laws and regulations in preparation for audit by the Board of Audit and Inspection. In the loss compensation system related to the installation of transmission and substation facilities, since the transmission tower and substation permanently use land, in principle, the ownership of the land is acquired by expropriation of land that deprives individuals of property rights. However, the transmission and transmission lines mainly take the method of acquiring the public use right for the transmission line site according to the public use of only a specific part of the land or underground. However, in relation to the public use of the transmission line site, loss compensation is made according to the license setting, which is called ‘Road Right Compensation’, ‘Load Compensation’, and ‘Load Compensation’ or ‘Transmission Line Site Compensation’ in that the line is mainly a problem in Korea. With the recent construction of transmission and transmission facilities, it is required to change the compensation paradigm that reflects the future value of the land due to the decline in the transaction value of the site and adjacent land. In this regard, Korea, like Japan, deserves to consider the annual user fee payment method in the lump sum compensation method according to the previous principle of lump sum payment. This study aims to derive implications for improving the compensation system under related laws and regulations that stipulate compensation for land price declines in surrounding areas and compensation for land expropriation or use of land with transmission and substitution facilities in Japan.