SEOUL, July 13 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating stood nearly unchanged at 63.3 percent last week compared to the previous week, a weekly poll showed Monday.
The negative assessment on Lee's conduct of state affairs made no change at 36.0 percent, according to computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) by local pollster Flower Research.
The ruling liberal Democratic Party's support decreased 0.6 percentage points to 48.1 percent, while the conservative opposition People Power Party's approval score gained 0.6 percentage points to 31.8 percent.
Support rate for the minor left-leaning Rebuilding Korea Party and the minor rightist New Reform Party logged 2.4 percent and 2.3 percent each last week.
The pollster's separate survey of the automated response system (ARS) showed that Lee's approval rating stood at 53.3 percent last week, while the negative assessment reached 45.6 percent.
Both the CATI and the ARS surveyed 1,004 voters from Friday to Saturday. The polls had plus and minus 3.1 percentage points in margin of error with a confidence level of 95 percent. ■
