Park's approval rating climbs back to over 50 pct

President Park Geun-hye's approval rating has climbed back to over 50 percent, higher than the support she won in last year's presidential election, amid waning repercussions from a sexual abuse scandal involving her former spokesman, a poll showed Sunday.

According to the survey conducted by polling agency Research View on May 31, public support for Park reached 53.5 percent, up 6.4 percentage points from its previous poll two weeks ago.

It is slightly higher than the result of the presidential election in December 2012, when Park was elected with 51.6 percent of the vote. She took office in February.

The latest survey of 1,200 people nationwide aged 19 or older had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level.