'Internal Resolution' Yoon Hee-geun, Hearing Preparation Team Leader, Visits Union Hunger Strike Site Today

The National Police Workplace Council (Jikhyup) Min Gwan-gi, President of the Jikhyup at Cheongju Heungdeok Police Station in Chungbuk, along with the presidents of the Jikhyup from four other police stations, are holding a hunger strike and head-shaving protest on the 4th in front of the National Police Agency in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, opposing the establishment of the Police Bureau under the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] Kim Sun-ho, Director of the Security Investigation Bureau at the National Police Agency and head of the personnel hearing preparation team for Yoon Hee-geun, the nominee for Commissioner General of the National Police Agency, will visit Min Gwan-gi, chairman of the Cheongju Heungdeok Police Station Workplace Council, who is on a hunger strike, again on the 10th. This move aims to calm internal opposition within the organization against the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's establishment of the 'Police Bureau' before the appointment of the next Commissioner General.

At 10:50 a.m. on the same day, Director Kim will visit the hunger strike site in front of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety building at the Government Complex Sejong. Min has been on a hunger strike there since the 5th, opposing the establishment of the Police Bureau within the Ministry. This visit marks the second time; Director Kim is known to have visited the site on the 7th as well.

The police leadership has been holding meetings at various local police agencies, including metropolitan and provincial police agencies, since the 8th to address opposition from some frontline officers ahead of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's final announcement of police system improvements on the 15th and the establishment of the new bureau by the end of August. The visit by Director Kim to the hunger strike site is said by the police to be part of this ongoing tour.

In particular, the police workplace council, including Chairman Min, has recently continued relay head-shaving protests in front of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety building in Sejong City, indicating that opposition is not easily subsiding. With Minister Lee Sang-min of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety not recognizing the representative status of the police workplace council, communication with the council has become a responsibility of the police leadership, according to consensus within and outside the police.

Meanwhile, the police leadership plans to visit the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, Daegu Police Agency, Southern Gyeonggi Police Agency, Northern Gyeonggi Police Agency, Gangwon Police Agency, Jeonnam Police Agency, and Gyeongnam Police Agency on the 11th to hear frontline voices. On the 12th, they will visit Gwangju Police Agency, Sejong Police Agency, Jeonbuk Police Agency, Gyeongbuk Police Agency, and Jeju Police Agency. On the 13th, the final tour will include visits to Busan Police Agency, Ulsan Police Agency, and Chungbuk Police Agency.

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