The current Act defines the scope of agricultural improvement as the act of modifying the form and quality of the land to increase the productivity thereof, where the irrigation, drainage, ventilation, and farming work of neighboring farmland are not affected.

Of the requirements for the admixing, mounding, and cutting of soil in the Enforcement Rule of the same Act, however, there is no provision concerning the height of soil mounds. As a result, readjusted farmland and soil mounds in superior farmlands developed in a similar manner are damaging farmlands and adversely affecting the irrigation, drainage, and other aspects of the farming environment in neighboring farmlands.

To preserve farmlands, which are a foundation necessary for providing the people with food and preserving national land, the Amendment imposes a fine of up to 10 million won on any person who fails to comply with the scope of farmland improvement, and prescribes grounds on which to impose a non-performance penalty on any person who has been issued with a restoration order but fails to comply therewith (Article 41-2; Article 42, paragraph 1, subparagraph 5; Article 60, subparagraph 4; and Article 62, paragraphs 9 and 10).

Require any person who modifies the form and quality of farmland in a certain manner to increase the productivity of the farmland to avoid affecting the irrigation, drainage, ventilation, and farming work of neighboring farmlands (Article 41-2); and impose a fine and non-performance penalty on those who fail to comply (Article 42 and Article 60).