President Yoon’s First 100 Days in Office Sees His Approval Rating Drop to 24%
|I don’t remember a President having their approval rating dropping this fast before:
What began as an approval rating of 52 percent in his first week in office was down to 24 percent by the first week of August, or only half of the 48.6 percent he won in votes during the election, according to Gallup Korea.
Yoon’s personnel choices were cited as among the biggest factors behind the slide, the pollster said, as controversy erupted over Education Minister Park Soon-ae’s plan to lower the elementary school entry age to 5. Park resigned last week.
The minister was not the only person to draw fire. Yoon’s decision to abolish the first lady’s office backfired when friends and acquaintances of first lady Kim Keon-hee were found to be accompanying and assisting her on official trips, including on Yoon and Kim’s visit to Spain in June.
Economic challenges weighed heavily on the new administration as prices soared along with the interest rate and exchange rate. The COVID-19 pandemic showed no signs of abating as cases mounted with the spread of new variants, while flash floods in the capital area killed at least a dozen people and exposed deep flaws in the country’s flood control systems.
To add to the administration’s woes, the ruling People Power Party was in a constant state of turmoil that was worsened by the embarrassing disclosure of texts Yoon exchanged with the party’s floor leader in which Yoon was seen backbiting about suspended party leader Lee Jun-seok.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but if his numbers continue to decline it makes me wonder if the Korean left will try and invent some way to impeach him like they did to former President Park Geun-hye?
BTW, this is every bit as sincere and meaningful as leftist polls:
… some way to impeach him like they did to former President Park Geun-hye?
The “some way” that Park Geun-hye was impeached led to an indictment and conviction by prosecutors.
There was no “conspiracy” against Park Geun-hye.
Park Geun-hye enabled Choi Soon-sil to set government policies and make decisions on Park Geun-hye’s behalf.
Choi Soon-sil also demanded and received bribes from Samsung et al.
This nformation is freely available on public court records … despite what Jim and Ron Watkins may claim on their QAnon monotone voiced broadcasts.
Uh… Riiiiight…
Jim and Ron Watkins just make stuff up.
e.g. Sean Bean played Dick Sharpe in a TV series.
Don Trump used a sharpie in his president TV series.
Therefore, playing the Sean Bean card is a dick move.
if the Korean left will try and invent some way to impeach him like they did to former President Park Geun-hye?
@GIKorea
You still live in the fantasy that former Pres. Park’s impeachment was a conspiracy by the left.
But had you done your research, the Korean way of impeachment, unlike the US does not involve the legislative body handing out the verdict.
The National Assembly only votes whether or not to send the case to the Constitution Court, which makes the final verdict.
In former Pres. Park case the Constitution Court found her guilty of obstruction of justice and thus impeached her.
It is interesting to note that for the other charges, the Constitution Court either dismissed them or found her not guilty.
With her impeachment, she lost her immunity leaving the door open for Yoon(yes the current President) and his underlings to investigate her.
It was the result of these investigations that led to her conviction and jailing.
So, it would be better if you stop with these nonsense about the leftist conspiracy to overthrow Park.
Because at the end of the day, it was the judges of the Constitution Court, an independent judicial body that impeached her and Yoon who investigated and jailed her.
How can there be a leftist conspiracy when someone who now belongs to the conservative PPP jailed her?
And wasn’t it Yoon who vigorously investigated Cho Kuk?
@Stephen, the dubious tablet PC is what got the ball rolling on impeachment. A year after impeachment the tablet PC was found to contain no evidence. Park was impeached on charges that she gave away the “monopoly of state affairs” largely based on the tablet PC. As far as corruption Lee Jae-yong did not give Park any money, he gave money to Choi’s sports foundation in effort for her to influence Park’s decision making on the Samsung succession.
Basically Choi was acting as a lobbyist which is illegal in South Korea. Do really think this is the first time a friend of the President was acting as a lobbyist? I seriously doubt it but Park’s deep unpopularity due to the Sewol ferry accusations and the misinformation put out in the tablet PC made her vulnerable to any impeachment attempt.
Personally, I would take Tara O’s posts with a pinch of salt.
But anyways, The Korean did a blog post about the Constitution Court’s ruling a while back, even taking the trouble to translate the ruling for those who are not fluent in Korean.
http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-impeachment-opinion-annotated.html#more
I think we can all agree here that The Korean as one of the original and respected K-bloggers has a lot of credibility, among those who read the K-blogs.
It’s a long read, but here’s a key passage from the post.
If you read on, the Constitution Court dismissed most of the charges bought against Park but did find that she abused her power to protect and assist Choi Soon-sil and obstructed justice, which to them were sufficient grounds for her removal.
As GI Korea mentioned, lobbying itself isn’t grounds for impeachment.
But unlike your typical lobbyist who uses the fact they know someone big to sell their services, in addition to other methods such as bribes, it seems this lobbyist had active protection and support from a sitting President.
It was this the Constitution Court found issue with and ruled that Park should be removed from power.
Of course with this removal from power she lost her immunity from prosecution.
And Pres. Yoon who at that time was a prosecutor swooped in, investigated and jailed her, which is ironic if you look at it now.
As for the news story about the tablet, it may have made people wonder, but as evidence it probably wasn’t sufficient enough to influence the Constituion Court’s ruling, which is the key here.
So trying to claim that there was a conspiracy and that Park may have been innocent based on a claim that “there was nothing on the tablet” is a bit of a reach, I’m afraid.
Hubris by Park there. There are only about a thousand prosecutors in the ROK. There is a difficult and long process to become a prosecutor. All the prosecutors, men and women, are no dummies.
Neutral observers of Korean behavior: Even in a court, facing a potential perjury charge*, some Koreans “provide a different perspective on reality” <del>lie</del> to protect their “friend(s)”.
ROK Prosecutors: We know that. Our job is to sift through the evidence, of often conflicting witness testimonies, to determine the truth. Korean witness testimonies are often bogus, that’s why we rely more on documentary and forensic evidence. Ms Park, we have the evidence, now ‘fess up. You refuse to cooperate? OK. We’ll add obstruction of justice to the indictment.
The inability of left-leaning posters to eithwr summarize or provide links detracts greatly from their credibility and (possibly inaccurately) marks them as mere spambots.
Park was impeached because of who her father was and the lies about her being responsible for the Sewol tragedy.
2+2=4, no matter how many pages of worthless froth one posts.
For our conspiracy theorist setnaffa, here’s the Constitution Court’s ruling on the Sewol disaster.
First, The Korean’s summary of the ruling. The Court found that her handling of the Sewol disaster is not an impeachable offense and thus threw it out.
Which means, setnaffa’s wild theory about Park being impeached because of Sewol, is a non-starter.
And the ruling itself, kindly translated by The Korean.
The inability of left-leaning posters to eithwr summarize or provide links detracts greatly from their credibility and (possibly inaccurately) marks them as mere spambots
That is rich coming from a person who uses Chicken Head to post for him long winded fake news and misinformation in an attempt to forward his conspiracy theories.