( Observer.com ) On September 15 local time, South Korean media SisaIN released the "2022 South Korean former President Trustworthiness Survey". The results showed that Moon Jae-in, which participated for the first time, ranked third with a vote rate of 15.1%, second only to Roh Moo-hyun (29.8%) and Park Chung-hee (24.3%), and ranks behind Moon Jae-in, Kim Dae-jung (13.5%) and Lee Myung-bak (3.6%).
SisaIN is one of the most circulated current affairs news weekly magazines in South Korea. Since its founding in 2007, it has conducted the survey every year (except in 2008 and 2011). The report pointed out that Lee Myung-bak won only 4.4% of the votes when he first participated in the evaluation in 2013, while Park Geun-hye's votes in was less than 1% (0.6%) in 2017. Moon Jae-in's votes this year are undoubtedly eye-catching.
On September 13th local time, Moon Jae-in's daughter Moon Do-hye posted a photo of Moon Jae-in cutting watermelon on Twitter. Source: Twitter
This survey was conducted between August 19th and 21st this year, with 1,005 men and women over 18 years old from all over South Korea. In terms of the population, people in their 30s (22.7%), Gwangju and Jeolla Dok (22.6%) and student groups (21.5%) are Moon Jae-in's biggest supporters. According to political tendencies, 29% of the progressives chose Moon Jae-in, and 14.1% of the centrists, but only 7% of the conservatives voted for Moon.
Survey shows that Moon Jae-in is trusted by young people, just like Roh Moon, but Moon Jae-in is more popular with women. 28.4% of women aged 18-29 and 34.1% of women in their 30s choose Moon. In contrast, only 9.1% of men aged 18-29 and 12.0% of men aged 30s support Moon Jae-in.
Roh Moo-hyun firmly ranked first in the list after 2014
It is reported that between 2007 and 2013, Park Chung-hee has been rated as the most trusted former president of South Korea. However, since 2014, the second year of Park Geun-hye in power, Roh Moo-hyun has surpassed Park Chung-hee, and Roh Moo-hyun's trust reached its peak after the "girlfriend" in 2016 (nearly 50%), and has since been firmly ranked first to this day.
Since 2013, the most trusted former president changes charts for Koreans are Park Chung-hee, Roh Moo-hyun, Kim Dae-jung, Lee Myung-bak, and Moon Jae-in. Source: SisaIN
This year, Roh Moo-hyun's vote rate dropped by 6.2% compared with last year, and was below 30% for the first time since 2013. SisaIN analyzed that this is because Moon Jae-in diverted some of Roh Moo-hyun's votes. The two simply added up to 44.9%, which is comparable to Roh Moo-hyun's level in previous years, and is only lower than his 45.3% in 2017. The
report also pointed out that in addition to those over 70 years old (9.1%), people of all ages still have a high level of trust in Roh Moo-hyun (21.3-43.3%), and the same is true when compared by region (20.2-35.2%).
Yong Seok-yeol set a "historical record"
In addition to the "Former Presidential Trustworthiness Survey", SisaIN also released the "Presidential Trustworthiness Survey" on September 12. South Korea's current President Yoon Seok-yeol set the lowest record since the first investigation was launched in 2007, with a score of 3.62 (out of 10 points), which is in the distrust range of 0-4 points.
SisaIN pointed out that the first year of the new president taking office should usually be a "honeymoon period", but Yoon Seok-hye's score is similar to the "atmosphere" at the end of the previous presidents' rule, and even worse. Moon Jae-in scored 4.59 in the last year of his administration in 2021, Lee Myung-bak scored 3.95 in 2012, and even Park Geun-hye scored 3.91 points when she stepped down due to her "girlfriends" in 2016.
2008 to present, from top to bottom: Lee Myung-bak, Park Geun-hye, Moon Jae-in, Yoon Seok-hye, Picture source: SisaIN
Survey shows that Yoon Seok-hye all received a low rating of 2-3 points on the six major issues of "relocation of the Presidential Palace", "Q&A on the way to work", "The Department of Administrative Security has set up a police station", "Punishment of Lee Jun-seok ", "Appointment of staff", and "First Lady Kim Kin-hee", among which the related issues of "First Lady Kim Kin-hee" became the biggest controversial point with a low score of 2.43.
In response to this, SisaIN suggested that trust is not an irreversible indicator, and Yoon Seo-yeo government "it's time to quickly solve the problem."
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