Public disapproval of Moon s presidency close to 60 percent
Posted : 2020-12-28 14:25
Updated : 2020-12-28 18:00
South Korean President Moon Jae-in drinks tea during a meeting at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul s Jongno District, Dec. 22, 2020. Korea Times file
President Moon Jae-in s approval rating has tied its all-time low, while public disapproval of his job performance has surged to the highest point so far, a poll showed Monday.
In the four-day Realmeter survey conducted on 2,008 people, aged 18 or older, nationwide till last Thursday, 36.7 percent of respondents supported the president, down 2.8 percentage points from the previous week.
Moon s rating had fallen to 36.7 percent, the lowest since he took office in May 2017, in the second week of December and bounced back to 39.5 percent the following week in Realmeter s tracking polls.
Public disapproval of Moon s presidency close to 60%: Realmeter |
President Moon Jae-in takes off his mask before speaking at the third plenary meeting of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology held at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Dec. 21, 2020. (Yonhap)
President Moon Jae-in s approval rating has tied its all-time low, while public disapproval of his job performance has surged to the highest point so far, a poll showed Monday.
In the four-day Realmeter survey conducted on 2,008 people, aged 18 or older, nationwide till last Thursday, 36.7 percent of respondents supported the president, down 2.8 percentage points from the previous week.
Moon s rating had fallen to 36.7 percent, the lowest since he took office in May 2017, in the second week of December and bounced back to 39.5 percent the following week in Realmeter s tracking polls.
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Ranking officials hit for ethical lapses
Posted : 2020-12-22 17:02
Updated : 2020-12-22 18:06
Land minister nominee Byeon Chang-heum, right, participates in an event with President Moon Jae-in in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, Dec. 11. Korea Times photo by Wang Tae-seok
By Do Je-hae
The Moon Jae-in administration is being hit for alleged ethical lapses of high-level officials and nominees for ranking posts.
Criticism is stronger as the Moon government has been claiming to advocate fairness and transparency since its inauguration.
Byeon Chang-heum, former CEO of the Korea Land & Housing Corp. (LH) and the nominee for the minister of land, infrastructure and transport, has been hit by the opposition and civic groups for some remarks he made regarding an accident at Guui Station in Seoul in 2016, where a subcontracted worker surnamed Kim, 19, was killed by a subway train while fixing a safety door on a metro platform.
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