President Lee Jae Myung receives policy briefings from key ministries at Cheong Wa Dae, Thursday. Yonhap
President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating edged down to 52 percent this week, a poll showed Friday, marking its second straight weekly decline.
In a survey conducted by Gallup Korea from Tuesday through Thursday, 52 percent of 1,003 respondents aged 18 and older positively assessed Lee's management of state affairs, down 1 percentage point from a week earlier.
The rating marks a consecutive weekly drop from 54 percent recorded in the poll released July 3.
Those who disapproved of Lee's handling of state affairs rose by 2 percentage points on-week to 37 percent. Eleven percent of the respondents declined to answer.
