South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has a record-high disapproval rating of 70% due to the country's strong opposition to a proposed education programme as well as ongoing worries about high inflation and internal strife in the ruling party, according to a new survey released on Monday.

According to the Korea Society Opinion Institute (KSOI) survey of 1002 people, which was conducted on August 4-5, 70.1% of respondents had negative opinions of Yoon's performance, an increase of 1.6 percentage points from the week before.

The President's approval rating dropped 1.4 percentage points from a week earlier to 27.5 percent, which is still well below the 30% mark. 

In a separate survey of 2,528 participants from August 1–5, conducted by the pollster Realmeter, 29.3% said they were doing well with state affairs, a decrease of 3.8 percentage points from the previous week. More than twice as many people gave negative ratings as positive ones, increasing by 3.3 percentage points to 64.5 percent within the same time period.

The pollster cited the weekly decline to a number of factors, including Education Minister Park Soon-ae's proposal to lower the school entry age for children, a leadership dispute  at the ruling party and persistent economic woes.
 "It seems the school entry age plan dramatically pulled down the ratings among housewives whose favorability ratings had stayed over 40%."said Bae Cheol-ho, Realmeter's senior analyst.

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