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| At the time, Seok-yeol Yoon visited the National Cemetery on January 2, 2018, then the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office (center). Left is the current Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office (News1 DB) 2021.3.5/News1 © News1 Reporter Heo Kyung |
In a public opinion poll of Seoul citizens, when I asked about former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol’s resignation, more opinions were found to be’good job’. However, more than half of the respondents said that it was’inappropriate’ to his challenge to the presidency.
In addition, more responses to the abolition of the prosecution’s right to investigate the prosecution through the establishment of the Severe Crime Investigation Office, which is summarized as the Democratic Party’s’Prosecution Reform Season 2′, were raised by the prosecution. First of all, it seems that the prosecution’s logic was more persuasive than the ruling party.
According to the survey results released on the 9th,’Former President Yoon Suk-yeol’ was conducted on 1009 men and women aged 18 and over living in Seoul on the 7th to 8th on the request of News1 by Embrain Public, a public opinion polling company. When asked how do you feel about challenging yourself, 50.4% of the respondents answered that it was’inappropriate’. 37.5% of the respondents answered’appropriate’ and 12.1% answered that they did not know or did not respond.
The positive opinions of the presidential challenge were higher among those in their 60s and older, the conservatives with ideological orientation, and the supporters of the people’s strength.
There were more positive opinions on former President Yoon’s resignation. When asked,’What do you think of former President Yoon’s resignation due to opposition to the deprivation of the prosecution’s right to investigate’, 46.8% of the respondents answered that it was a’good decision’. 33.5% answered’wrong decision’. Don’t know and no response was 19.7%.
In all age groups, the answer of’good decision’ was the dominant, and by ideological orientation, only the progressive group had more of the answer of’wrong decision’.
Regarding the abolition of the prosecution’s right to investigate, 37.2% said that’the right to investigate the prosecution should be completely deprived’, and 50.4% said that’if the prosecution’s right to investigate will be completely deprived’. It seems that the prosecution’s argument is more sympathetic than the Democratic Party’s argument.
On the other hand, regarding the suspicion of preliminary speculation of land in a new city by employees of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), which is causing social anger, more than 8 out of 10 Seoul citizens perceived it as a structural problem of the public official society as a whole, not an individual deviation.
Of the respondents, 84.8% answered that it was’the problem of deep-rooted corruption structure in the general public service society’, and only 9.7% answered’personal deviation’. 5.5% of respondents did not know.
For this recognition, similar opinions were presented by gender, age, occupation, ideological orientation, and both positive and negative evaluators of the current government.
Meanwhile, this survey was conducted as a telephone interview survey (100% wireless phone) through a mobile phone virtual number after allocation by gender, age, and region using a structured questionnaire. The sample error is ±3.1% points (p) with a 95% confidence level, and the response rate is 16.7%. To correct errors, post-weights were assigned according to the population ratio (sex, age, region) as the resident registration demographic standard announced by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security at the end of last February (cell weight). For more information, please refer to the website of the Central Election Survey and Deliberation Committee.
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