SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating rose 3.9 percentage points from a week earlier to 69.1 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday.
The negative assessment of Lee's conduct of state affairs decreased 4.2 percentage points to 29.2 percent, according to computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) by local pollster Flower Research.
The ruling liberal Democratic Party's support advanced 2.1 percentage points to 54.6 percent, while the conservative opposition People Power Party's approval score declined 1.6 percentage points to 28.6 percent.
Support rates for the minor left-leaning Rebuilding Korea Party and the minor rightist New Reform Party logged 1.6 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 increased 3.7 percentage points to 62.5 percent last week compared to the previous week.
The CATI and the ARS surveyed 1,004 and 1,011 voters each from Friday to Saturday. They had plus and minus 3.1 percentage points in margin of error with a confidence level of 95 percent. ■
