SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating rose 1.5 percentage points from a week earlier to 69.3 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday.
The negative assessment on Lee's conduct of state affairs decreased 1.7 percentage points to 29.5 percent, according to computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) by local pollster Flower Research.
The ruling liberal Democratic Party's support retreated 1.6 percentage points to 53.7 percent, while the conservative opposition People Power Party's approval score dipped 3.8 percentage points to 25.2 percent.
Support rate for the minor left-leaning Rebuilding Korea Party and the minor rightist New Reform Party logged 2.6 percent and 3.6 percent each last week.
The pollster's separate survey of automated response system (ARS) showed that Lee's approval rating declined 2.7 percentage points to 61.9 percent last week compared to the previous week.
Both the CATI and the ARS surveyed 1,006 voters from Friday to Saturday. They had plus and minus 3.1 percentage points in margin of error with a confidence level of 95 percent. ■