South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rating fell 1.2 percentage points over the week to 40.0 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday.
style="margin-bottom: 15px;">The negative assessment on Yoon's conduct of state affairs added 0.6 percentage points to 57.2 percent, according to local pollster Realmeter.
Support for the ruling conservative People Power Party came to 39.2 percent last week, down 1.8 percentage points from a week earlier.
The main liberal opposition Democratic Party's popularity rating gained 2.6 percentage points to 45.5 percent.
The minor progressive Justice Party won 3.8 percent of support score last week, up 0.8 percentage points from the previous week.
The results were based on a poll of 2,511 voters conducted from last Monday to Friday. It had plus and minus 2.0 percentage points in margin of error with a 95-percent confidence level.
