The head of a Si/Gun/Gu shall grant permission, except where an application for permission filed under Article 11 falls under any of the following:
1. Where any person who intends to conclude a land transaction contract intends to use the relevant land for any purpose other than the following purposes:(a) Where he or she intends to use such land as a site for his or her residential housing;(b) Where he or she intends to use such land to install facilities confirmed by the head of the competent Si/Gun/Gu as welfare or convenience facilities for residents in the area including an area subject to permission is included;(c) Where such land is necessary for persons engaged in farming, forestry, or fisheries, or persons prescribed by Presidential Decree who reside in an area subject to permission to engage in the business of agriculture, livestock, forest, or fishery within the relevant area subject to permission;(d) Where such land is necessary for any person implementing a project entitled to expropriate or use land under the Act on Acquisition of and Compensation for Land for Public Works Projects or any other Act in order to implement the project;(e) Where any person who implements, or intends to implement, a project necessary for sound development of areas, including an area subject to permission, and also deemed to serve the designation objectives of an area, district, zone, etc. designated by the related Acts intends to use such land for the project;(f) Where any person who implements a project in the Special Metropolitan City, a Metropolitan City, a Special Self-Governing City, or a Si (including an administrative city established under Article 10 (2) of the Special Act on the Establishment of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province and the Development of Free International City; hereafter in this Article the same shall apply)/Gun to which a permitted area belongs as at the time such area is designated, or in the neighboring Special Metropolitan City, Metropolitan City, Special Self-Governing City, or Si/Gun intends to use for the project, or a third person who performs project closely related to his or her project intends to use it for such project;(g) Where he or she intends to use land for a purpose prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as the land required for everyday life and normal economic activities of those who live in the Special Metropolitan City, a Metropolitan City, a Special Self-Governing City, or a Si/Gun to which an area subject to permission belongs;
2. Where the objective of land use by any person intending to enter into a land transaction contract falls under any of the following:(a) Where it does not comply with an urban or Gun plan defined in subparagraph 2 of Article 2 of the National Land Planning and Utilization Act and other plans for utilizing and managing the land;(b) Where it threatens preservation of an ecosystem and the protection of decent living conditions for residents;
3. Where such area is deemed inappropriate in view of the objectives of using the land.