Yoon's approval rating barely unchanged after 3 weeks of decline

President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a ceremony marking Parents' Day at a stadium in central Seoul, May 3. Yonhap President Yoon Suk Yeol's approval rating rebounded slightly to 30.3 percent, a poll showed Monday, after falling for three consecutive weeks.

The survey, conducted by the polling agency Realmeter, showed the positive assessment of Yoon's performance went up by 0.1 percentage point from the previous week, within the margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.



The poll, conducted on 2,004 adults from April 29 to May 3, showed 65.5 percent of respondents disapproved of his performance, down 1.4 percentage points from the previous week.

Yoon's approval rating had seen a continuous decline since the April 10 parliamentary elections, dropping from 37.3 percent in the first week of April to 32.6 percent, 32.

3 percent and 30.2 percent in the following three weeks. In the general elections, the opposition bloc, led by the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, won 192 seats in the 300-member National Assembly, while the ruling People Power Party secured only 108.

(Yonhap).