![Kim Jong-cheol, the acting chief of the Korean National Police Agency who has been nominated as the agency's next chief, speaks at a Cabinet meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday under the chairmanship of President Lee Jae Myung. [Yonhap]](https://wimg.heraldcorp.com/news/cms/2026/11/11/news-p.v1.20261111.1409de77d7f446478a6fe92e14ac0b68_P1.jpg)
The National Assembly will hold a confirmation hearing for Korean National Police Agency chief nominee Kim Jong-cheol on Nov. 18.
The Assembly's Public Administration and Security Committee adopted a plan to that effect at a plenary session Wednesday. The committee also approved Ham Young-uk, head of the wide-area investigation unit at the Gyeonggi Province Southern Police Agency, as a witness, and Min Gwan-gi, chairman of the National Police Workplace Council, and Kim Seong-geun, public affairs director and spokesperson of the Korean Medical Association, as reference persons.
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