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| President Moon Jae-in / Yonhap |
President Moon Jae-in's job approval rating rose last week, a poll showed Monday, apparently helped by the upcoming U.S.-North Korea summit aimed at denuclearizing the North.
The president's support came to 51 percent last week, up 1.2 percentage points from a week earlier, according to Realmeter.
The weekly survey was conducted Monday through Friday, involving 2,514 adults throughout the nation.
The on-week increase came ahead of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, scheduled to be held in Hanoi from Wednesday through Thursday. The two leaders first met in Singapore in June.
Moon's approval rating climbed to as high as 51.6 percent after he held a telephone conversation with the U.S. president Tuesday on the U.S.-North Korea summit, the local pollster said.
The ruling Democratic Party's approval rating also improved, gaining 0.1 percentage point to 40.4 percent over the cited period, but that of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party advanced at a much faster clip of 1.6 percentage points to 26.8 percent.
The approval ratings of all three minor opposition parties increased.
The progressive Justice Party's rating gained 0.1 percentage point to 7.1 percent with that of the Bareunmirae Party rising 0.6 percent to 6.6 percent.
The approval rating of the Party for Democracy and Peace climbed 0.4 point to 3.2 percent. (Yonhap)
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