SEOUL, May 9 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in's approval rating fell this week after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s short-range projectile launches, a weekly poll showed Thursday.
According to the Realmeter survey, support for President Moon was down 1.8 percentage points over the week to 47.3 percent this week.
The negative assessment on Moon's management of state affairs added 2.6 percentage points to 48.6 percent.
It came after the DPRK fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast Saturday.
Despite the decline, Moon's support score was higher than his two conservative predecessors, Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye, who won 44 percent and 35.3 percent of supports each in the same period. Friday marks the second anniversary of Moon's inauguration.
Meanwhile, support for Moon's ruling Democratic Party dipped 3.7 percentage points over the week to 36.4 percent this week.
Approval rating for the main conservative opposition Liberty Korea Party rose 1.8 percentage points to 34.8 percent, narrowing the gap with the governing party to the lowest since President Moon took office two years ago.
The minor progressive Justice Party won 8.3 percent of support, followed by the minor conservative Bareun Future and the center-left Party for Democracy and Peace that garnered 4.5 percent and 2.1 percent each in support scores.
The results were based on a poll of 1,008 voters conducted from Tuesday to Wednesday. It had plus or minus 3.1 percentage points in margin of error with a 95-percent confidence level.
