If Yoon Seok-you continues to be sluggish, there is a possibility that Ahn Cheol-soo will be unified.
Mr. Ahn Cheol-soo, presidential candidate of the “People Party” whose approval rating has risen sharply here (Photo: YONHAP NEWS / Afro)
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(Masatoshi Muto: Former Ambassador of Japan to Korea)
As I pointed out in my book, The Wandering Koreans (WAC), the situation in the South Korean presidential election scheduled for March 9 has become a situation that truly symbolizes the current wandering South Korea. The appearance of the two-strong confrontation between the ruling party “Democratic Party of Korea” and the largest opposition party “People Power Party”, which was initially expected, has been shaken here. The background is that the mood that is not convincing to choose the president from the two disliked candidates and the two disliked major parties is beginning to spread among the people.
On the other hand, if you look inside the “People’s Power”, there is a sign that the “internal conflict” between Yoon Seok-you and Lee Jun-seok is finally settled. These rapid changes indicate that the Korean society has become more fragmented, the middle class has swelled away from the two strong conflicts of conservative vs. innovation, and as a result, public opinion has become extremely fluid. Isn’t it?
Approval rating of Yoon Seok-you, who plummets
Two months before Yoon Seok-yeol was nominated as the presidential candidate for the largest conservative opposition, the People Power Party, its approval rating was significantly different from that of Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party of Korea. I was wearing it.
However, the current situation is that Yoon Seok-you’s approval rating has not stopped declining. The cause is the separation of young people. “Youth alienation” is a serious problem because it is the young people who do not clarify the candidates who support them and the other middle class who decide the outcome of this presidential election.
In a poll of 1024 men and women between the ages of 18 and 39, which was conducted by the Korean opinion poll company Realmeter on the 3rd to 4th at the request of the news TV station YTN, 33.4% of the Democratic Party of Korea candidates Lee Jae-myung. Ahn Cheol-soo, a candidate for the Democratic Party of Korea’s “People’s Party,” won 19.1% of the support, and Yoon Seok-you, who won 18.4%, fell to third place.
Presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung (left) of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea and Yoon Seok-you of the “People Power Party” (photo: representative photo / Archyde.com / Afro)
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In response to the question of “the person who thinks he should not be the most president,” Yoon Seok-you was the highest at 48.8%, followed by Lee Jae-myung at 36.2%, and “Justice Party” Sim Sang-jung at 4.5%. Tetsuhide was 2.8%. In this way, Yoon Seok-you’s popularity has plummeted.
Mr. Yoon reached 32.5% of the candidates rejected by the conservatives and 50.4% of the candidates rejected by the centrists. Lee Jae-myung was also rejected by 35.7% of middlemen.
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