South Korea Virus Response Pushes Moon Rating to Historic High
- Highest rating for any Korean president at same point in term
- Moon’s progressive camp also scored election win in April
Moon Jae-in, left, at the Daegu Medical Center in Feb. 2020.
Photographer: South Korean Presidential Blue House/Getty Images
The approval rating for Moon Jae-in hit a record high for any democratically elected South Korean president at the same point in their term in office, in a show of public support for government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Moon’s approval rating hit 71% in a weekly Gallup Korea tracking poll released Friday, its highest since July 2018 and the highest for any president heading into the final two years of a single, five-year term, the agency said. This comes as new infections in South Korea having fallen to single digits several weeks ago, allowing Moon’s government to ease its social distancing campaign and start reopening schools from May 13.