S.Korean Prez Yoon’s approval rating drops after hot mic incident

Seoul, Oct 3 : South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeols approval rating fell for the first time in four weeks after his remarks caught on a hot mic in New York caused an uproar here, a survey showed on Monday.In the poll of 2,522 voters conducted by Realmeter from Monday to Friday last week, 31.

2 per cent positively assessed Yoons job performance, down 3.4 percentage points from the previous week, Yonhap news agency reported.Yoons disapproval rating was 66 per cent, up 3.8 percentage points.The drop could be attributable to the hot mic controversy and Yoons accusation of media manipulation after he came under fire for using vulgar words in private remarks to aides caught on a hot mic during his trip to New York last month, according to Bae Cheol-ho, a senior analyst at Realmeter.

Though the recording of Yoons remarks was not clear due to noise, many thought that he used foul language while talking about US Congress and US President Joe Biden.Yoons office rejected the claim, saying he was referring to South Koreas opposition-controlled National Assembly and did not mention US Congress or Biden.The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points at a 95 per cent confidence level.int/shs #SKorean #Prez #approval #drops #New York #New York #Seoul #Congress.