Moon Jae-in in Washington in May 21. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg

South Korean president's approval rating fell 4.5 percentage points over the week to 34.2 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday.

Iran PressAsia: The negative assessment on Moon Jae-in's conduct of state affairs gained 5.3 percentage points to 62.9 percent, according to the Realmeter survey.

Support for Moon's ruling Democratic Party declined 4.0 percentage points to 25.9 percent last week, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The main conservative opposition People Power Party won 46 percent of approval score last week, up 3.4 percentage points from the previous week.

The minor center-right People's Party garnered 8.2 percent of support rating, trailed by the minor center-left Open Democratic Party with 5.2 percent and the minor progressive Justice Party with 3.6 percent.

The results were based on a survey of 2,525 voters conducted from last Monday to Friday. It had plus and minus 2 percentage points in margin of error with a 95-percent confidence level.

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