Kim Seung-won, Nominee for Justice Minister, Begins Preparations for Confirmation Hearing... Scheduled for First Commute on the 3rd

Representative Kim Seung-won of the Democratic Party of Korea, who has been nominated as the Minister of Justice, has begun full-fledged preparations for his personnel confirmation hearing.

Nominee Kim plans to set up an office for the confirmation hearing preparation team on the 5th floor of the Jeokseon Hyundai Building on Sajik-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, to prepare for the hearing.

Nominee Kim is expected to commute to the office for the first time at 9:30 AM the day after tomorrow (the 3rd) and briefly state his thoughts on the nomination.

Cha Beom-jun, head of the Planning and Coordination Office at the Ministry of Justice, will lead the entire process as the head of the confirmation hearing preparation team, while Seo Gyeong-won, head of the Policy Planning Division, will serve as the general team leader, and Choi Tae-eun, spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice, will serve as the public relations team leader.

The support team is composed of a personnel verification team, a Q&A team, and an administration team.

Since being nominated as the Minister of Justice, Nominee Kim stated on the 31st of last month, "I believe that successfully establishing the new criminal justice system, the first in 70 years, well in the Republic of Korea is the most urgent mission (if appointed as minister)."

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