New President Kim Young-pyo gives his inaugural speech at a ceremony held on Nov. 4 

at the head office of Korea Cadastral Survey Corp.(KCSC). (Photos: KCSC)

Korea Cadastral Survey Corp. (KCSC) held an inauguration ceremony for its new president Kim Young-pyo on Nov. 4 at its head office in Yeouido, Seoul, with all of its key executives attending and Director-General Do Tae-ho of the Land Housing Office of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

The new CEO said in his inaugural speech that he will see that the company becomes a key engine for the government’s Creative Economy drive and create high value-added products. The company will make sure its public image of a government-run hub company for information on empty land will do its best for balanced regional development, the new president said.

He said the company will expand its traditional businesses of big data on empty space, its overseas operations, and other strategic businesses and diversify its income sources while he is in charge of running the company.

While visiting the company’s Hwasong branch office in Hwasong, Gyeonggi Province, he said he would like to see the company’s culture reformed to be centered on people so that each employee can take pride in working for the company and do his or her job thoroughly to realize their dreams.

New President  Kim Young-pyo has his picture taken with the entire members of 

KCSC management during his inaugural ceremony on Nov. 4.

The company should boost its public image by providing better services in order to fulfill its mission of taking charge of geographical surveys and measurements as a government-run company, he said.

The company, under the leadership of the new president, will turn stage space information as a core resource and create high value-added products through new and diverse business models to be developed in the days ahead.

Kim, born in Namhae, South Gyeonsang Province, graduated from Seoul National University and entered the Land Research Institute in 1979 where he held a number of key positions with the company including director in charge of planning and management headquarters, the chief of the GIS Research Team, and vice president of the Land Research Institute, among others.

Kim is regarded as a pioneers for his part in the introduction of GIS in Korea. In 2005, he was part of the team that completed a three-dimensional map of Korea using GIS similar to the map of Korea drawn up by the late geographer Kim Jong-ho, winning a very good reaction from the academic circles. He authored a couple of books on Korean mountain ranges based on GIS (1999) and the study of mountain ranges on the Korean peninsula (2004).

In meantime, an exhibition entitled “Happy World created by Information on Space” took place from Nov. 13-15 hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport with the support of five corporations led by the Korea Cadastral Survey Corp.

Minister Suh Seong-hwan said in his opening speech at the event, “The land space information industry can be a blue ocean when it is mixed with other industrial areas as it is driven by creativity and the imagination creating unlimited value.

“What we need to do is to boost the quality of land space information and mix it with diverse areas in order to use them more effectively in our daily lives,” the minister said.