Seoul, South Korea
South Korea's court-run real-property register is open to anyone who pays — ₩700 to view one record online — but strictly one parcel or building at a time, with no bulk owner file; every sale is published with its lot number and price but no parties, and the towers of Jamsil, Samseong and Yeouido are known to be Lotte's, Hyundai Motor's, KITA's and Hanwha's because their own statements, the city's records and reported sales say so.
12 buildings · 11 with an owner established · 33 sources · 10 tier A · 2 tier B · prepared 2026-10-20
Can you find out who owns it?
Real property registration (부동산등기) is run by the courts under the Supreme Court's Court Registry Office, and Article 19 of the Real Property Registration Act says that anyone (누구든지) may, on paying the fee, inspect a register record and obtain a certificate of its contents — no reason or interest is asked, though the supporting documents can be inspected only by an interested party. The record gives the parcel or building, every owner with the cause and date of transfer, and mortgages and leases. A Supreme Court rule sets the fees: ₩700 to view one record over the internet, ₩1,000 for a certificate printed online or at a kiosk, ₩1,200 at a registry counter. Searches go one property at a time through the court's Internet Registry Office (iros.go.kr); there is no bulk owner dataset. Sale prices, by contrast, are open: every reported sale is published by MOLIT and the Seoul Metropolitan Government with its lot number, building name, floor, area and price, but no buyer or seller.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title search₩700 to view one register record over the internet (열람); ₩1,000 for a certificate (등기사항증명서) issued online or at a kiosk; ₩1,200 for a certificate at a registry counter (up to 20 pages, then ₩50 a page) — 등기사항증명서 등 수수료규칙, Supreme Court Rule No. 3222, in force 1 August 2025
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
Sites that forbid taking their data
- land.naver.com (Naver Real Estate / 네이버 부동산) — “네이버의 사전 허락 없이 자동화된 수단(예: 매크로 프로그램, 로봇(봇), 스파이더, 스크래퍼 등)을 이용하여 … 네이버 서비스에 게재된 회원의 아이디(ID), 게시물 등을 수집하거나 … 이용자(사람)의 실제 이용을 전제로 하는 네이버 서비스의 제공 취지에 부합하지 않는 방식으로 네이버 서비스를 이용하거나 … 시도해서는 안 됩니다. (Naver terms, in force 1 Oct 2026: no automated means — macros, bots, spiders, scrapers — to collect posts or use the service other than as a person would, without Naver's prior permission.)”
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lotte World Tower and Lotte World Mall (롯데월드타워·롯데월드몰) 300 Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu (Sincheon-dong) 304,081 m² floor area (tower) · 123 floors |
Mixed use | Lotte Property & Development (롯데물산) SBS Biz, 15 April 2026: Lotte Chemical on 14 April 2026 amended its corporate-bond guarantee secured on '계열사 롯데물산 소유의 롯데월드타워·롯데월드몰' (Lotte World Tower and Lotte World Mall, owned by affiliate Lotte Property & Development), widening the security from bonds already issued to future issues and extending it three years to March 2029. The tower was first pledged at the end of 2024, when ₩2 trillion-odd of Lotte Chemical bonds hit an event of default on a covenant; the report calls the tower '6조 원대' (a ₩6-trillion-class asset) — a characterisation, not a valuation. Lotte Property & Development is described as a Lotte affiliate (계열사); 123 floors, 555 m, completed December 2016 (Wikipedia). |
Private company | —A |
| Hyundai Motor Group Global Business Center site (현대차 GBC, former KEPCO headquarters land) 512 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu (Samseong-dong 167) 74,148 m² site · 49 floors |
Mixed use | Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차(주)) and two other group companies Seoul Metropolitan Government's project page (updated 24 July 2026): site 강남구 삼성동 영동대로 512 (삼성동 167), 건축주 (building owner/developer) 현대자동차(주) 외 2개사, site 74,148 m², project 2015–2031, now 49 floors (242 m) in three towers instead of the original single 105-floor tower, completion targeted for end-2031. Seoul's 2016 release fixed the public contribution for the rezoning at ₩1.7491 trillion. Money Today reports KEPCO chose the Hyundai Motor–Kia–Hyundai Mobis consortium at ₩10.55 trillion; the split among the three is not stated in either source and is not recorded here. |
Public company | KRW ₩10.55 trillion (10조5500억원) 2014-09 Winning bid for the KEPCO Samseong-dong land, 79,342 m², more than three times the ₩3.3346 trillion appraisal (Money Today, 18 Sept 2014) B |
| COEX / World Trade Center Seoul (코엑스·무역센터: Trade Tower, COEX Convention & Exhibition Center, Starfield COEX Mall) 511–513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu (Samseong-dong) 605,221 m² (WTC Seoul complex as KITA states it) |
Mixed use | Korea International Trade Association (한국무역협회, KITA) KITA's own page, 무역센터 현황: 'WTC Seoul은 한국무역협회가 소유 및 운영하고 있으며' (WTC Seoul is owned and operated by KITA), joined the WTCA in 1972; a 605,221 m² complex of the Trade Tower, convention and exhibition halls, two luxury hotels, the city air terminal, a shopping mall and entertainment centre; COEX itself is four floors below and four above ground. The page lists Parnas Tower, the InterContinental hotels and Parnas Mall within the WTCS area; their ownership is not stated there and is not asserted here. COEX is run by KITA's company 주식회사 코엑스 and the mall is managed by Shinsegae (Wikipedia). |
Institution | —A |
| IFC Seoul (서울국제금융센터: One, Two and Three IFC and IFC Mall) 10 Gukjegeumyung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu (Yeouido) |
Mixed use | Brookfield Asset Management (funds managed by 브룩필드자산운용) Korea Economic Daily (Hankyung), 28 August 2025: Brookfield bought IFC from AIG at the end of 2016 for ₩2.55 trillion, when office vacancy was 75% and the mall's 30%, and cut both to 1–2%. A May 2022 sale to Mirae Asset at about ₩4.1 trillion — the largest in Korean real estate — failed when MOLIT refused the REIT licence. Brookfield sold the Conrad Seoul alone to Singapore's ARA in August 2024 for ₩400 billion. Talks on the three office towers and the mall broke down (bidders at low-to-mid ₩3 trillion, seller holding at ₩4 trillion+), and Brookfield instead moved to transfer them into a new continuation fund it manages. Whether that transfer has closed was not established. |
Private equity | KRW ₩2.55 trillion (2조5500억원) 2016-12 Bought from AIG at the end of 2016 (Hankyung, 28 Aug 2025); the whole complex including the Conrad, which was sold separately in August 2024 A |
| Conrad Seoul (콘래드 서울, IFC Seoul hotel) 10 Gukjegeumyung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu (Yeouido) |
Hotel | ARA Asset Management (Singapore-based; 싱가포르계 ARA자산운용) Hankyung, 28 August 2025: '브룩필드자산운용은 작년 8월 콘래드서울만 싱가포르계 ARA자산운용에 4000억원에 매각했다' — Brookfield sold only the Conrad Seoul to Singapore-linked ARA for ₩400 billion in August 2024. The fund or entity that holds the hotel is not named in the source. |
Private equity | KRW ₩400 billion (4000억원) 2024-08 Brookfield's sale of the Conrad alone, per Hankyung 28 Aug 2025; the buying vehicle is not named A |
| 63 Building (63빌딩, 63 SQUARE) Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu 166,207 m² (Wikipedia) · 60 floors |
Office | Hanwha Life Insurance (한화생명) Hanwha Life's release of 1 June 2026, carried by Hankyung: '한화생명은 본사 사옥인 63빌딩' — the 63 Building is Hanwha Life's head-office building; it renovated the commercial floors, opened Centre Pompidou Hanwha in the basement and annex on 4 June 2026 with the Hanwha Cultural Foundation, and calls the change a lift to the asset's value (자산 가치 제고). Wikipedia: built by Daehan (Korea) Life Insurance, completed 1985 at a cost of ₩180 billion; Korea Life, now Hanwha Life, passed to the Hanwha Group after the 1997 crisis. A release calling it the company's own head office, with Wikipedia's ownership statement, is the evidence — no filing was opened, hence tier B. |
Public company | —B |
| Gyeongbokgung Palace (경복궁, Historic Site No. 117) 161 Sajik-ro, Jongno-gu 432,703 m² |
Civic | Republic of Korea — Korea Heritage Service (국가유산청) National Heritage Portal record for 사적 경복궁 (景福宮): area 432,703 m², designated 21 January 1963, location 서울특별시 종로구 사직로 161, built 1395 (태조 4년); 소유자(소유단체) '국(국가유산청)' — the state, through the Korea Heritage Service; 관리자(관리단체) 국가유산청 경복궁관리소 (the Gyeongbokgung management office). |
Government | —A |
| Dongdaemun Design Plaza (동대문디자인플라자, DDP) 281 Eulji-ro, Jung-gu 86,574 m² floor area; 20 lots on the former Dongdaemun Stadium site · 4 floors |
Civic | Seoul Metropolitan Government (서울특별시) DDP's own page: 서울특별시 중구 을지로 281 (20필지, 옛 동대문운동장 터), 연면적 86,574 m², 3 floors below and 4 above ground, 29 m high, built 28 April 2009 – 21 March 2014. The city ordinance governing it (서울특별시 동대문디자인플라자(DDP) 및 동대문역사문화공원 관리·운영 조례, No. 9492, in force 4 March 2025, as reproduced on DDP's rental site) has the Mayor set hire charges 'under Article 26(1) of the Seoul ordinance on public property and goods (공유재산 및 물품 관리 조례)' at not less than 5% of the property's assessed value — i.e. DDP is city public property; it is run by the city-funded Seoul Design Foundation. |
Government | —A |
| Seoul Station North railway land (서울역 북부역세권) 122 Bongnae-dong 2-ga, Jung-gu (29,048.9 m²) 29,048.9 m² site; about 337,000 m² floor area planned, up to 39 floors in five buildings |
Land | Korail (Korea Railroad Corporation, 한국철도공사) Seoul Metropolitan Government, 29 March 2021: the city concluded ten months of pre-negotiation with '토지소유자 코레일, 사업자 한화 컨소시엄' — landowner Korail and developer the Hanwha consortium — on the idle rail land north of Seoul Station, stalled since 2008 when the original private developer withdrew. The city's project page (updated 17 April 2026): site 중구 봉래동2가 122 일대, 29,048.9 m²; developer ㈜서울역북부역세권개발; public contribution 47.45% (about ₩338.4 billion); building permit December 2023, construction started November 2024, completion planned for the first half of 2029. Seoul Station itself and its rail tracks were not separately sourced. |
Government | —A |
| Yongsan International Business District (용산국제업무지구, 'Yongsan Seoul Core') 40-1 Hangang-ro 3-ga, Yongsan-gu, and surrounding lots 456,099 m² district |
Land | Not established a paid title search would answer it Seoul Metropolitan Government, 17 November 2025: the 456,099 m² district at 용산구 한강로3가 40-1 일대 broke ground on 27 November 2025, more than ten years after the previous scheme stalled; the city chose the public bodies Korail and SH as implementers (사업시행자) to build roads, parks and infrastructure by 2028, after which private developers build on individual lots, with occupants from 2030. Being implementer is not holding title to every lot; registered owners are on the court register one lot at a time, so no owner is asserted. Wikipedia says Korail owns underused land in Yongsan. |
Not established | —A |
| SK Seorin Building (SK 서린빌딩) 26 Jong-ro, Jongno-gu (Seorin-dong 99) and one other lot 83,828 m² floor area; site 5,779 m² · 36 floors |
Office | SK REIT (에스케이위탁관리부동산투자회사) SK REIT's portfolio page: 서울특별시 종로구 종로 26 (서린동 99) 외 1필지, completed October 1999 (renovated 2019), general commercial zone, site 5,779 m², floor area 83,828 m², B7/36F, 160 m — the tallest building in its CBD sub-market; 100% master-leased triple-net to SK Inc., lease renewed for five years on 5 July 2026 with rent indexed to Seoul CPI (floor 1.5%). Purchase price ₩1.003 trillion on 6 July 2021; appraised value ₩1.3206 trillion at 30 June 2026. SK REIT is listed and managed by SK REITs Management. |
REIT | KRW ₩1.003 trillion (1조 30억원) 2021-07-06 Purchase price as SK REIT's portfolio page states it; appraised at ₩1.3206 trillion at 30 June 2026 (Kyungil appraisal) A |
| Jongno Tower (종로타워) 51 Jong-ro, Jongno-gu (linked to Jonggak station) 60,600.6 m² floor area; site 5,007.9 m² · 33 floors |
Office | SK REIT (에스케이위탁관리부동산투자회사) SK REIT's portfolio page: 서울특별시 종로구 종로 51, completed September 1999, site 5,007.9 m², floor area 60,600.6 m², B6/33F; purchase price ₩621.5 billion on 19 October 2022, appraised ₩687.8 billion at 30 June 2026 (Kyungil appraisal); anchor tenant 'SK Green Campus', five SK group companies, on a five-year lease with 3% annual increases. |
REIT | KRW ₩621.5 billion (6,215억원) 2022-10-19 Purchase price per SK REIT's page; appraised at ₩687.8 billion at 30 June 2026 A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Seoul's most valuable ground is measured by the state's official land prices (공시지가), not by any roll of owners: MOLIT sets standard-lot prices for 600,000 benchmark parcels nationally each 1 January, and the district offices derive an individual price for every parcel, which Seoul publishes as open data (KOGL Type 1) without the owner. The peak is on the Myeong-dong / Chungmu-ro shopping streets of Jung-gu; the ten dearest standard lots in Korea are all in Seoul, eight of them in Myeong-dong and Chungmu-ro.
Highest standard-lot land price in Korea, 1 January 2026 (draft)₩188,400,000 per m²
MOLIT release of 17 December 2025, '26년 표준지·표준주택 공시가격(안) 열람, table 전국 상위 10개 필지: rank 1, 서울특별시 중구 충무로1가, 169.3 m², 대 (building land), commercial use, ₩180,500,000/m² in 2025 → ₩188,400,000/m² proposed for 2026. Rank 2 is 중구 명동2가, 392.4 m², office use, ₩187,600,000/m². The figures are the draft put to owners for comment (18 Dec 2025 – 6 Jan 2026); the address is the dong, not the lot.
Dearest standard lots outside the old core, 2026 (draft)₩136,100,000 per m² (Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam); ₩134,000,000 per m² (Seocho-dong)
Same MOLIT table, ranks 9 and 10: 강남구 역삼동, 747.7 m², office use (₩127,500,000 in 2025); 서초구 서초동, 662.2 m², office use (₩125,800,000). Ranks 1–8 are all in Jung-gu's Chungmu-ro 1–2-ga and Myeong-dong 2-ga.
Average standard-lot price, Seoul, 2026 (draft)₩7,296,440 per m², +4.89% on 2025
MOLIT release of 17 December 2025: Seoul's average standard-lot price ₩7,296,440/m² against ₩262,975 nationally; Seoul's rise of 4.89% is the highest of any province or city (national +3.35%, Gyeonggi +2.67%). The prices apply a 65.5% market-value ratio (시세반영률), the same as 2025 — they are official values, not market prices.
Recorded sales in Seoul's open transaction file334,399 rows
Seoul Metropolitan Government's tbLnOpendataRtmsV OpenAPI (from MOLIT's 실거래가 공개시스템), read 20 October 2026: list_total_count 334,399; each row gives the district, legal dong, lot number (본번/부번), building name, contract date, price in units of ₩10,000, floor and building use — no buyer or seller. KOGL Type 1, refreshed daily.
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Seoul's biggest holders are public: the state (heritage sites, ministries, the returning US Forces Korea garrison at Yongsan), the Seoul Metropolitan Government and its housing and transport companies, and the national rail and housing corporations. Who holds the rest parcel by parcel sits on the court register, one ₩700 view at a time; the cadastral statistics that split Seoul's land between state, city, corporate and private names exist (Seoul Open Data 'land by ownership class', from MOLIT's cadastral yearbook) but its tables would not render to a script, so no share is given here. Figures below are as each source states them and are not comparable.
| Name | Type | Holdings (as each source states) |
|---|---|---|
| SH Corporation (서울주택도시공사, Seoul Housing & Communities Corporation) SH's own file of rental homes it supplies and manages, by district: total 252,321, of which 73,229 redevelopment rentals (재개발임대), 39,728 purchased rentals (매입임대), 38,296 long-term jeonse (장기전세), plus permanent, national, happy-housing and youth units; largest stocks in Gangseo-gu (21,766) and Gangdong-gu (21,502). SH is the Seoul Metropolitan Government's housing corporation and co-implements the Yongsan International Business District with Korail. |
Government | 252,321 rental homes across all 25 districts (31 Aug 2026)A |
| LH (Korea Land and Housing Corporation, 한국토지주택공사) LH's file of built-for-rent public housing by district: Seoul total 32,429 — 24,316 permanent rental (영구임대), 6,013 happy housing (행복주택), 2,100 national rental (국민임대); the largest blocks in Gangseo-gu (8,359), Nowon-gu (7,489) and Gangnam-gu (5,739). Purchased and jeonse-lease rentals are not in this file, so LH's full Seoul stock is larger. |
Government | 32,429 built-for-rent public homes in Seoul (June 2026)A |
| Republic of Korea — national property (국유재산), managed by the Ministry of Finance and Economy (재정경제부) The ministry's own series: total national property ₩14,026,808 억원 at the end of 2025, land 27,546 km² valued at ₩6,342,212 억원, buildings ₩768,369 억원. This is a national total — the file has no Seoul breakdown. In Seoul the state holds, among much else, Gyeongbokgung (432,703 m², Korea Heritage Service) and the Yongsan garrison land. The ministry that runs the national-property system is now named 재정경제부 in the data portal. |
Government | ₩1,402.7 trillion of national property, 27,546 km² of land, nationwide (end-2025)A |
| Republic of Korea — Yongsan Garrison land used by US Forces Korea (용산기지) MOLIT, 25 April 2023: of the Yongsan base's 2.43 million m² (about 740,000 pyeong), 584,000 m² was returned by US Forces Korea in 2022 alone, and 300,000 m² of it opened as the Yongsan Children's Garden on 4 May 2023, ahead of the full Yongsan Park once the base is completely returned; the base's return began when USFK's move to Pyeongtaek was agreed in the 2000s. Later returns were not sourced here. |
Government | 2.43 million m² base; 584,000 m² returned in 2022A |
| Seoul Metropolitan Government (서울특별시) The city's DDP ordinance prices hire of the building under the Seoul ordinance on public property (공유재산), and SMG sets the rezoning terms for every large private site through 'pre-negotiation' — ₩1.7491 trillion of public contribution from the Hyundai Motor GBC site, about ₩338.4 billion from Seoul Station North. The city publishes a statistic of its public property by type and value (서울시 공유재산 통계, Seoul asset management division) but its table would not render to a script, so no total is given. |
Government | Dongdaemun Design Plaza (86,574 m²) and other public property; no total sourcedA |
| Korail (Korea Railroad Corporation, 한국철도공사) Seoul Metropolitan Government names Korail as 토지소유자 (landowner) of the idle rail land north of Seoul Station, being developed by the Hanwha consortium, and chose Korail and SH as public implementers of the Yongsan district. Korail's own pages could not be read (encrypted robots.txt), so no portfolio total is given; the Korea National Railway (국가철도공단), which holds national rail infrastructure, was not sourced. |
Government | Seoul Station North railway land, 29,048.9 m²; co-implementer of the 456,099 m² Yongsan International Business DistrictA |
| Seoul Metro (서울교통공사) Seoul Metro's own station file lists all 276 stations on Lines 1–8 that it runs. It is the operator; title to station land and depots was not established from an opened source, so this is a count of what it operates, not of land it owns. |
Government | 276 stations on Lines 1–8A |
| Seoul National University (서울대학교) Wikipedia's infobox: 'Urban, 4.2 km² (1,037 acres); 7.0 km² (1,729 acres), including the arboreta and other campuses'. SNU's own site disallows ClaudeBot in robots.txt and was not read, so this rests on Wikipedia alone; not every one of those campuses is in Seoul. |
Institution | 4.2 km² main campus (Gwanak); 7.0 km² including arboreta and other campusesB |
| KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation, 한국전력공사) Money Today, 18 September 2014: KEPCO chose the Hyundai Motor Group consortium (Hyundai Motor, Kia, Hyundai Mobis) at ₩10.55 trillion for the 79,342 m² site, against an appraisal of ₩3.3346 trillion; the site is now the GBC. KEPCO's remaining Seoul land was not sourced (its site disallows non-search-engine crawlers). |
Government | Sold its 79,342 m² Samseong-dong headquarters land for ₩10.55 trillion (Sept 2014)A |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
New homes in Seoul are almost entirely apartments, and most are built by rebuilding or redeveloping old estates (재건축·재개발): a residents' association owns the land and contracts a general builder, so the builder rarely owns the finished homes — individual buyers do, and their names stay off this page. Korea has one official league table, MOLIT's annual construction-capability ratings, whose annex ranks builders by the value of work done in the previous year by type, including apartments — nationwide, not for Seoul alone and not in units. The large public landlords that also build — SH and LH — publish their stock as open data.
| Name | Type | Apartment work done nationwide, 2025 (₩) |
|---|---|---|
| Hyundai Engineering & Construction (현대건설, 'Hillstate'/'THE H') MOLIT 2026 capability ratings, annex on building work: rank 1 for apartments by 2025 work done (기성액) ₩69,870억; overall capability rating #2 at ₩18.2714 trillion. |
Public company | ₩6.987 trillion (6조 9,870억원)A |
| GS Engineering & Construction (지에스건설, 'Xi') MOLIT 2026 ratings annex: apartments rank 2, ₩59,377억 of 2025 work; overall capability #3 at ₩11.0668 trillion (up two places). |
Public company | ₩5.938 trillionA |
| Lotte Engineering & Construction (롯데건설, 'Lotte Castle') MOLIT 2026 ratings annex: apartments rank 3, ₩46,472억; overall capability #7 at ₩7.8411 trillion. Wikipedia names Lotte E&C as developer of Lotte World Tower. |
Private company | ₩4.647 trillionA |
| Daewoo Engineering & Construction (대우건설, 'Prugio') MOLIT 2026 ratings annex: apartments rank 4, ₩38,403억; overall capability #5 at ₩9.9249 trillion (down two places). |
Public company | ₩3.840 trillionA |
| POSCO E&C (포스코이앤씨, 'The Sharp') MOLIT 2026 ratings annex: apartments rank 5, ₩33,675억; overall capability #8. |
Public company | ₩3.368 trillionA |
| Samsung C&T (삼성물산, 'Raemian') MOLIT 2026 ratings annex: apartments rank 9, ₩19,225억 — but #1 in the overall capability rating at ₩34.8785 trillion, as in 2025. |
Public company | ₩1.923 trillionA |
| SH Corporation (서울주택도시공사) The city's housing corporation is both builder and landlord: its own file counts 252,321 rental homes in Seoul across all 25 districts. See landowners. |
Government | 252,321 rental homes held (Aug 2026)A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Seoul's large commercial floor space is held by business groups' property companies (Lotte, Hanwha Life, SK), a trade association (KITA), foreign private-equity funds (Brookfield) and, increasingly, listed REITs whose own sites and the REIT association publish holdings and asset totals. DART filings would give each group's investment-property schedule, but the filing viewer is closed to scripts by robots.txt, so these come from the owners' and the association's pages. Figures are in each source's own units.
| Name | Type | Holdings (as each source states) |
|---|---|---|
| Korea International Trade Association (KITA) KITA's page: WTC Seoul, which it owns and operates, is a 605,221 m² complex of the Trade Tower, COEX convention and exhibition halls, two luxury hotels, the city air terminal, shopping mall and entertainment centre. The Parnas-branded tower, hotels and mall listed within the WTCS area are not asserted as KITA's. |
Institution | 605,221 m² — World Trade Center Seoul, Samseong-dongA |
| Lotte Property & Development (롯데물산) SBS Biz, April 2026: Lotte World Tower and Lotte World Mall are owned by Lotte Property & Development and have been pledged since late 2024 as security for Lotte Chemical's bonds, now to March 2029. Floor area from Wikipedia. |
Private company | Lotte World Tower (304,081 m², 123 floors) and Lotte World MallA |
| SK REIT (SK리츠) Korea Association of REITs: SK REIT's total assets ₩5조 4,088억 at 31 March 2026, the largest listed REIT in Korea (next Shinhan Alpha REIT ₩3.1317 trillion, Lotte REIT ₩2.8832 trillion, JR Global REIT ₩2.8779 trillion, ESR Kendall Square ₩2.8171 trillion — whose Seoul holdings were not itemised, so they are not listed here). SK REIT's own page: AUM ₩5.3 trillion, 61% offices; its Seoul offices include SK Seorin Building (83,828 m², bought ₩1.003 trillion) and Jongno Tower (60,600.6 m², ₩621.5 billion). |
REIT | Total assets ₩5.4088 trillion (31 Mar 2026); 5 offices, 103 petrol stations, 5 water-treatment buildingsA |
| Brookfield Asset Management (IFC Seoul funds) Hankyung, August 2025: Brookfield kept the three towers and mall after selling the Conrad to ARA for ₩400 billion (August 2024), and moved to put them into a continuation fund after bids in the low-to-mid ₩3 trillion range failed to meet its ₩4 trillion+ ask. |
Private equity | Three IFC office towers and IFC Mall, Yeouido; bought with the Conrad for ₩2.55 trillion in 2016A |
| Hanwha Life Insurance (한화생명) Hanwha Life's June 2026 release describes the 63 Building as its head-office building (본사 사옥) and its renewal as lifting the asset's value; floor area from Wikipedia. Its other Seoul holdings were not sourced. |
Public company | 63 Building, Yeouido (166,207 m², head office)B |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The split of the Hyundai Motor Group GBC site among Hyundai Motor, Kia and Hyundai Mobis: Seoul names 'Hyundai Motor and two other companies' as building owner and the 2014 report names the three-company consortium, but no opened source states the shares (DART was not readable).
- Whether Brookfield's planned continuation-fund transfer of the three IFC Seoul towers and IFC Mall has closed, and which vehicle holds the Conrad Seoul for ARA.
- The registered owner of each Yongsan International Business District lot: Seoul names Korail and SH as implementers, not as title-holders, and the court register is per-parcel and paid.
- Ownership of Seoul Station's station building and tracks (as distinct from the Seoul Station North land, which Seoul names as Korail's), and the Korea National Railway's Seoul holdings.
- Parnas Tower, InterContinental Seoul COEX/Parnas and Parnas Mall, inside the WTC Seoul area: KITA's page lists them but does not say who owns them.
- Seoul land by ownership class (state, city, district, corporate, private) from MOLIT's cadastral statistics, and the city's public-property total by value — both published by Seoul, neither table rendered to a script.
- The final (Feb 2026) standard-lot prices: the figures given are MOLIT's December 2025 draft put to owners for comment.
- Builders' Seoul-only output in units: no official Seoul league exists, MOLIT's apartment ranking is national and in won, and the builders' business reports sit on DART.
- Holdings of Samsung Life, Mirae Asset, the National Pension Service and the listed office REITs other than SK REIT (Shinhan Alpha, Lotte, IGIS) in Seoul — the REIT association publishes their asset lists as images and DART was not readable.
- The 63 Building's ownership rests on a Hanwha Life release calling it the company's head-office building plus Wikipedia; Hanwha Life's investment-property schedule (DART) was not read.
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Sources
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- 등기사항증명서 등 수수료규칙 (Rules on fees for register certificates), Supreme Court Rule No. 3222, in force 1 August 2025, Articles 2–3 — 국가법령정보센터 (Korea Ministry of Government Legislation) · openA
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- Seoul OpenAPI tbLnOpendataRtmsV (real-estate transaction rows, sample key) — fields RCPT_YR, CGG_NM, STDG_NM, MNO/SNO (lot number), BLDG_NM, CTRT_DAY, THING_AMT (₩10,000), FLR — 서울특별시 (Seoul Metropolitan Government) · openA
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- "그 가격엔 못 팔아"…브룩필드, '여의도 IFC' 컨티뉴에이션펀드 조성 추진 (Brookfield moves IFC Seoul into a continuation fund) — 한국경제 (Korea Economic Daily) · openA
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- 63 Building — Wikipedia · openA
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- '용산국제업무지구' 10년 만에 첫 삽…입체복합수직도시 조성 (Yongsan International Business District breaks ground) — 내 손안에 서울 (Seoul Metropolitan Government) · openA
- '26년 표준지·표준주택 공시가격(안) 열람 — 공시가격 변동률: 표준지 3.35%, 표준주택 2.51% 상승 (press release with PDF annex) — 국토교통부 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport), via 대한민국 정책브리핑 · openA
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