Because safety matters most in a property deal, the parties and other interested persons should, before the transaction, rule out doubts about whether the ownership is genuine and whether the property is being misused, and should assess whether the money paid can be protected or recovered. Most parties do not know everything about the property, so they must read the register and the rights involved, and for anything the register does not show they have to rely on the broker or the seller. This imbalance of information causes problems during and after the deal. If the parties cannot obtain enough information, they may suffer losses they did not foresee. The current register shows mainly the latest property rights and attachments and leaves out a great deal, so it is hard for a party to analyze the rights, find the relevant law and gather the needed documents alone. To ease this uncertainty and imbalance, the register should add information that affects the rights in the property, such as the households registered at the address, which shows whether there are small-deposit tenants, and the dates on which tenants obtained fixed-date stamps.

Under the seal certificate system, the issuing office checks the identity of the person or the agent and then issues the certificate, so there is a risk that someone forges an agent's identity to obtain one. For the seal certificate to protect the validity of registration, the issuing procedure should be tightened to prevent issuance that could be used for crime. Forged seal certificates also appear, so a way to detect them is needed. When the registration certificate information is missing, a qualified agent must confirm the person's identity and prepare a confirmation document, which is close to notarial work. Yet the rules for a qualified agent's identity check differ greatly from the notary rules for checking a client or agent, and the agent's verification procedure has no clear rules. The Certified Judicial Scriveners Act only says that a scrivener taking a case should check the resident registration card or seal certificate and confirm the person or the agent. This shows the weakness of identity checks by qualified agents, and anyone who targets this gap with false statements may go undetected. The identity checks for seal certificates should be strengthened, and detailed rules for qualified agents' identity checks should be made.

People who rely on the Korean property register and suffer losses are not properly compensated. Compensation is not paid to each victim; instead the state pays damages under the State Compensation Act according to the fault of the registry official. Compensation schemes are usually discussed as a way to guarantee public faith in the register. Even in Korea, where the register has no public faith, many people lose money after trusting it. To fill this gap, a scheme compensating losses caused by defective registration should be introduced. It is needed because losses occur in transactions even though public faith is not recognized, and it can also be seen as preparing in advance, legally and institutionally, for a time when public faith is recognized.

To add: the accredited certificate mentioned in the paper was renamed the joint certificate after the Electronic Signatures Act was revised in December 2020, and electronic filing and register copies are now available through the Internet Registry Office. The Civil Code still does not give the register public faith; the courts give a registration only a presumption of validity and, in principle, do not protect a buyer who relied on a registration made with forged papers. Under the Act on Special Measures for Registration of Real Estate, a transfer of ownership based on a contract must be filed within 60 days of the final payment, and late filing brings an administrative fine.