SEOUL, S. Korea, Aug 22 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korean President, Moon Jae-in’s approval rating, fell this week, on controversy over the nomination of new justice minister, a weekly poll showed today (Thursday).
According to the Realmeter survey, support for Moon fell 2.7 percentage points over the week, to 46.7 percent this week.
The negative assessment on Moon’s management of state affairs was up 2.9 percentage points to 49.2 percent.
The lower support score came, amid growing controversy over Cho Kuk, former senior presidential secretary for civil affairs, who was named a new justice minister.
Conservative local media and political parties raised corruption issues with Cho, including the unlawful entrance of his daughter to a university.
Support for Moon’s ruling Democratic Party declined 2.3 percentage points over the week to 38.3 percent this week.
The main conservative opposition Liberty Korea Party saw its support rating edge down 0.1 percentage point to 29.3 percent.
It was followed by the minor progressive Justice Party with 6.9 percent, the minor conservative Bareun Future Party with 5.9 percent, the far-right Our Republican Party with 2.4 percent and the centre-left Party for Democracy and Peace with 1.7 percent.
The results were based on a survey of 1,507 voters, conducted from Monday to Wednesday. It had plus and minus 2.5 percentage points in margin of error, with 95 percent of confidence level.
