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| The main opposition Liberty Korea Party leader Hwang Kyo-ahn, left, meets with General Paik Sun-yup, 98, who served as a Republic of Korea army division and corps commander and army chief of staff during the 1950-53 Korean War, and who now serves as the chief consultant at the Institute for Military History under the Ministry of National Defense. The two met at Paik's office at the War Memorial of Korea in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Monday. Yonhap |
By Jung Da-min
The approval rating for the main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) dropped below 30 percent last week. It rose above 30 percent in the first week of March for the first time since October 2016 and remained there for 13 weeks.
The support rate for the LKP had reached a peak of 34.3 percent in the third week of May but dropped over the last two weeks.
In the latest poll of 2,002 adults over 19 conducted by Realmeter for four days from June 3 to 5 and on June 7, the LKP's approval rating came to 29.6 percent, down 0.4 percentage points from the week earlier.
The approval rating for the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) recorded 40.5 percent, down 0.5 percentage points from the previous week, while fluctuating between 38.7 and 40.2 percent for the past six weeks.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points with a 95 percent confidence level.
It came at a time when the National Assembly was making no progress on discussing the extra budget as well as bills regarding electoral and judicial reforms.
Meanwhile, Yang Jung-chul, head of the Institute of Demoracy under the DPK, met with Kim Kyoung-soo, the governor of South Gyeongsang Province at Kim's office, Monday, to sign a MOU between the DPK think tank and the Gyeongnam Development Institute.
The meeting between the two confidants to President Moon Jae-in came two months after Yang visited Kim at the Seoul Detention Center while Kim was in detention after being found guilty of online opinion-rigging operations ahead of the 2017 presidential election.
The LKP has criticized Yang over his recent series of meetings with liberal politicians, saying Yang is trying to gain influence ahead of the general election next year.
