President Yoon’s Approval Rating Falls to 20%
The doctor crisis appears to be crushing President Yoon’s approval rating:
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s approval rating fell to 20 percent, marking its lowest level since he took office in May 2022, a poll showed Friday.
The survey, conducted by the polling agency Gallup Korea, showed that the positive assessment of Yoon’s performance plunged 3 percentage points from the previous week, while his negative assessment reached an all-time high of 70 percent, up 3 percent from a week earlier.
Yoon’s handling of medical school quotas, the economy and lack of communication were cited as reasons for the negative assessment.
The approval ratings of the ruling People Power Party (PPP), the main opposition Democratic Party and the Rebuilding Korea Party came to 28 percent, 33 percent and 8 percent, respectively.
You can read more at the link, but if the Yoon administration stands firm on the medical school quota issue the current short term pain of the current doctor strike will ultimately lead to more doctors in the long term.
