SEOUL, July 21 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating rose 1.5 percentage points over the week to 76.2 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday.
The negative assessment of Lee's conduct of state affairs fell 0.8 percentage points to 21.9 percent, according to computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) by local pollster Flower Research.
The ruling liberal Democratic Party's support increased 1.1 percentage points to 58.9 percent, while the conservative opposition People Power Party's approval score slipped 1.2 percentage points to 19.5 percent.
Support rate for the minor left-leaning Rebuilding Korea Party and the minor rightist New Reform Party posted 4.1 percent and 2.4 percent each last week.
The pollster's separate survey of the automated response system (ARS) showed that Lee's approval rating advanced 1.4 percentage points to 69.7 percent last week compared to the previous week.
The CATI and the ARS surveyed 1,007 and 1,008 voters each from Friday to Saturday. They had plus and minus 3.1 percentage points in margin of error with a 95-percent confidence level. ■
