For First Time in 4 Years, UFP More Popular than Democratic Party
This just shows how touchy of an issue real estate is in Korea; that mostly this one issue has caused the ruling party to quickly slide in public polling:
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For the first time since the 2016 political scandal that led to President Park Geun-hye’s removal from office, the approval rating of the United Future Party (UFP) overtook that of President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party (DP), a poll showed Thursday.
Joong Ang Ilbo
According to a Realmeter poll conducted earlier this week, 36.5 percent of respondents said they support the UFP, up by 1.9 percentage points from the previous week. That figure was the highest since the party was rebranded in February.
In the same survey conducted from Monday through Wednesday on 1,507 adults nationwide, the DP’s approval rate was 33.4 percent, down by 1.7 percentage points.
It was the first time the UFP outstripped the DP in Realmeter’s weekly approval rating poll since October 2016.
You can read more at the link, but the Korean public is upset about the government’s efforts to manipulate the real estate market while many government officials to include President Moon are being accused of hypocrisy and benefitting from real estate speculation.
