SEOUL, May 10 (Xinhua) -- South Korean ruling party's approval rating hit a record high amid growing support from conservative voters, especially in the country's southeast region that has long been regarded as a home turf for the conservative bloc, a weekly poll showed Thursday.
According to the Realmeter survey, support score for the Democratic Party of South Korean President Moon Jae-in advanced 3 percentage points from the previous week to 56.9 percent this week.
It was the highest ever recorded by the governing party, topping the previous high of 56.7 percent tallied last May after the presidential election.
The result was based on a poll of 1,001 voters conducted from Monday to Tuesday. It had 3.1 percentage points in margin of error with a 95 percent confidence level.
The Democratic Party won higher support from voters in the North Gyeongsang province, a traditional home turf for the main opposition Liberty Korea Party.
Chief of the Liberty Korea Party criticized the April 27 summit between President Moon and Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), as a "political show." The denunciation caused strong criticism of the conservative party from conservative voters.
Moon and Kim met at the border village of Panmunjom, agreeing to complete denuclearization and the turn of the current armistice agreement into a peace treaty by the end of this year. The Korean Peninsula remains technically at war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended with armistice.
Support for the Liberty Korea Party kept falling for the third consecutive week to 17.4 percent this week. The minor conservative Bareun Future Party won 5.6 percent of support, followed by the minor progressive Justice Party and the centrist Party for Democracy and Peace which garnered 4.5 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively.
