View Briefing: Could personnel controversies affect the government’s approval rating?

Hankyoreh’s “View Briefing” focuses on whether recent personnel controversies could affect the government’s approval rating.

The programme lists disputes involving candidate Yong Hye-in’s simultaneous positions as minister and lawmaker, an alleged “underground organisation,” and lawmaker Kim Seung-won’s photographs with a pharmaceutical lobbying broker and a judge who rejected an arrest warrant. It also covers Kim’s statement that a justice minister has no authority to cancel an indictment and that he has no intention of directing such a move.

Other topics include claims that Cho Kuk attacked President Lee Jae-myung to raise his profile, Lee Suk-yeon’s departure as chair of the National Integration Committee over philosophical differences with the Lee government, and Korea Society Opinion Institute polling that put positive views of the government’s second Cabinet reshuffle at 37.7%, compared with 46.6% negative views. The briefing also discusses the progress of Yoon Suk Yeol’s trial over alleged violations of the Public Official Election Act and the Board of Audit and Inspection’s claim that the Supreme Court paid justices monthly cash “encouragement money.”