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Former Seoul mayor Lee Myung-bak has more than twice the supporters as former Grand National Party chairwoman Park Geun-hye and former prime minister Goh Kun, according to a poll on hopefuls for the next presidential election conducted by the Chosun Ilbo and Gallup Korea.
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From left: Lee Myung-bak, Park Geun-hye, Goh Kun, Lee Hoi-chang and Sohn Hak-kyu
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The survey, conducted between Dec. 26 and 27 of 2,024 adults across the country, showed a continuing support pattern that began to take shape in October, led by Lee (40.7 percent) and followed by Park (19.3 percent) and Goh (15 percent). In a survey conducted at the end of December 2005, Lee (27.5 percent) and Goh (28 percent) were neck and neck. But now, Lee leads by more than 15 percentage points. Park saw a slight increase from a year ago, when she had a support rating of 17.6 percent. Former Grand National Party chairman Lee Hoi-chang was in fourth place with 3.9 percent, followed by former Gyeonggi Province governor Sohn Hak-kyu with 3.5 percent, former ruling Uri Party chairman Chung Dong-young with 1.6 percent, minor opposition Democratic Labor Party leader Kwon Young-ghil with 1.2 percent, Uri Party Chairman Kim Geun-tae with 1 percent, former president of Seoul National University Chung Un-chan with 0.9 percent and Health and Welfare Minister Rhyu Si-min with 0.9 percent.
Meanwhile, a mere 12.3 percent of the respondents said President Roh Moo-hyun was doing a good job, while 79.3 percent said he was doing a poorly. In terms of support ratings for different political parties, the GNP was in first place with 51.8 percent support, followed by Uri with 11.2 percent. The Democratic Labor Party got 8.8 percent support, followed by the Democratic Party with 5.6 percent. In the last Gallup poll, President Roh and the Uri Party scored the lowest support rating and the GNP more than 50 percent.
Asked whether they were satisfied with the direction of Korean politics, economy, social affairs, foreign relations and national security, 85.2 percent of the respondents said no, while 9.1 percent were moderately satisfied and only 4.3 percent fully satisfied.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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