S.Korean president's approval rating rises to 33.1 pct: poll

SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rating rose 1.1 percentage points over the week to 33.1 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday.

The negative assessment on Yoon's conduct of state affairs slipped 1.6 percentage points to 64.2 percent, according to local pollster Realmeter.

Support for the ruling conservative People Power Party came to 36.3 percent last week, up 1.1 percentage points from a week earlier.

The main liberal opposition Democratic Party's approval rating decreased 2.8 percentage points to 46.4 percent.

The minor progressive Justice Party won 3.7 percent of the support score last week, up 0.7 percentage points from the previous week.

The results were based on a poll of 2,014 voters conducted from last Tuesday to Friday. It had plus and minus 2.2 percentage points in margin of error with a 95-percent confidence level.