Present and Future Vision of Surveying and Geospatial Information System in Korea

Surveying and GIS have increasingly contributed to improve the quality of humane life through the development of its technology. While the surveying professions are now experiencing the crisis of identity. In this paper, we aim to study the concepts and presence of newly used terminologies, present state and future vision of surveying and GIS in Korea. To cope with various surveying consumers for expanding the market and their demands, enhancement of educational system, complement of laws legal system, construction of cooperative system in business are basically required.