Fall in approval ratings: peace on the Korean peninsula, excluding prosecution reform

President Moon Jae-in said on the 1st, “There is a saying that it is a bull step even if you walk slowly,” and said, “I will never let go of one person’s hand and walk with the people until everyone’s lives are free from corona.

He said in a New Year’s message posted on Facebook that day, “With the power of win-win, we will surely get our daily life back.” He said, “I will return to the people with their daily recovery.”

President Moon’s New Year message is the fourth since he took office. Each time he evaluated what he had done last year, along with a condensed piece of code that hints at new tasks to be pursued.

However, in this year’s message, the word’prosecution reform’ that shook the government last year was omitted. Although the high-ranking officials criminal investigation office (Airborne Office), which was about to be launched, was the primary goal and achievement of the prosecution reform proposed by President Moon, it was not included in this message.

Over this, the opposition party believes that “the defeat in the conflict between Chu Miae and Yoon Seok-yeol had an effect.” It was decided that there was no need to include adverse issues in the message.

In the meantime, President Moon’s New Year’s message was sensitively linked to the support rate and political situation at the time. When the confidence was overflowing, the expression became stronger, and when the approval rate fell, the expression leaned on the support base increased.

The confidence in the 2018 New Year message, which came out after the first year of his tenure with a staggering approval rating of over 80%, was different from now.

In his 2018 New Year’s message, President Moon said, “The wishes have come true. “Last year, our people were amazing. He raised the country again and built it right away.” It was about the so-called’candle revolution’. Regarding the New Year’s goal, he said, “I wish the success of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games and peace on the Korean Peninsula.” In fact, 2018 went by similar to President Moon’s words. Starting with the inter-Korean summit on April 27, 2018, the closed inter-Korean summit and the Pyongyang summit in September (18-20) followed on May 26.

In the local elections held in June, the ruling Democratic Party won overwhelming victory. Right before the election, the approval rate rose to 77%, but the pace of improvement in inter-Korean relations slowed down, and real estate prices shook, and in December of that year, President Moon’s approval rate fell to the high 40% range.

In his 2019 New Year’s message, President Moon recalled the’candle power’, which was the basis of the ruling power, saying, “I will never forget the heart of the candle to light up the world more warmly this winter.” The opposition party said, “It is a side by side to fall in approval ratings.”

2019 was the year when the motherland and the half motherland collided. In January and December 2019, President Moon’s approval rating was the same at 47%. As the people were split in two, the rate of positive and negative evaluation of the president fluctuated throughout the year.

In the 2020 New Year’s message released with public opinion completely diverging from side to side, President Moon reexamined his supporters. “I am always happy because there are warm and hot people who practice justice.” President Moon continued, “We will steadily overcome the difficulties and keep the buds of change that we cherished, and in the new year, we will blossom and bear fruit with certain achievements.” Then, the opposition party came out of opposition, saying that they split sides with the people who practice justice and not the people.

And the card I took out was the so-called’prosecution reform’. Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae, who took the lead, announced the beginning of the’Chu-Yun conflict’ by struck out all of the aides of President Yoon as soon as he took office. Although the establishment of the airlift was accomplished, the situation quickly turned down as the court put a brake on the unreasonable punishment of the incumbent prosecutor general.

And in the message of President Moon’s New Year in 2021, the’prosecution reform’ disappeared. Instead, he said, “We will lead the wind of change not only for quarantine, but also for the economy and the climate environment, and for peace on the Korean Peninsula.” Experts pay attention to the topic of’peace on the Korean Peninsula, the wind of change.’ President Moon, whose approval rating fell below 40%, said It seems that the inter-Korean relations have indicated that they will see the game again.

Passports are betting on the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for July. A government official said, “As the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics served as an opportunity to improve inter-Korean relations, I feel that the whole government is eager to create a peace mood in Northeast Asia at the Tokyo Olympics.” It is in the same context to launch a wave of reconciliation against Japan, which once confronted Japan with a bamboo spear.

Last month, former secretary Noh Young-min left the Blue House on the 31st of last month and said, “I often liken the latter half of my term to Hassan. I don’t agree. I don’t agree. It is the course that we must go to the summit that has endlessly climbed upward and finally stopped on the last day of the term. President Moon introduced the words of President Moon, saying, “Let’s put our minds together with the attitude that we are enlisting a person who is newly inaugurated as president of the year.

This is what President Moon said when he took office as President Roh Moo-hyun’s last secretary in March 2007. An official from the passport said, “President Moon, who was motivated by saying’the summit stopped on the last day of his term’ 13 years ago, wants to aim for the last reversal this time’through corona overcoming and inter-Korean relations’.” It seems to me.”

Reporter Kang Tae-hwa [email protected]