As allegations surfaced in politics about the Unification Church providing political funds, a poll found that 62% of the public believes a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate.

On the 15th, at former Minister Chun Jae-soo's office inside the National Assembly Members' Office Building, police who finish a search and seizure related to allegations of accepting money and valuables from the Unification Church move seized items./Courtesy of Yonhap News

Korea Gallup asked 1,001 adults aged 18 and older nationwide from the 16th to the 18th about alleged money from the Unification Church to political figures, and 62% answered that a special prosecutor should be introduced. Those who said there is no need to introduce one were 22%, and don't know/no answer was 16%.

Support for introducing a special prosecutor was high regardless of party affiliation. Among supporters of the Democratic Party of Korea, 67% said a special prosecutor should be introduced; People Power Party supporters, 60%; and independents, 53%. By ideology, 67% of progressives, 65% of moderates, and 61% of conservatives said a special prosecutor should be introduced.

Regarding President Lee Jae-myung's job performance, 55% of respondents said he is doing well. That is down 1 percentage point from the previous survey. Those who said he is doing poorly were 36%, up 2 percentage points from the previous survey. Undecided was 9%.

The most cited reasons for a positive assessment of the president's job performance were "communication, Cabinet meetings, and work briefings" at 18%. That was followed by "diplomacy (15%)," "economy and people's livelihoods (11%)," and "job competence, capability; does well overall (10% each)." Reasons for negative assessments were "economy and people's livelihoods (18%)," "morality issues; evading one's own trial (11%)," and "dictatorship; dogmatism; does poorly overall (7% each)."

Party support stood at 40% for the Democratic Party of Korea and 26% for the People Power Party, the same as the previous survey. The Reform Party was at 4%, the Rebuilding Korea Party at 3%, and The Progressive Party at 1%. Independents were 26%.

This survey was conducted through interviewer-administered phone calls to randomly generated mobile virtual numbers. The margin of sampling error is ±3.1 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, the contact rate is 49.8%, and the response rate is 10.8%. For details, see the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.

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