The mass strike of South Korean doctors has triggered a crisis in the medical system, but it has boosted Yoon Suk-yeol's approval ratings. Bloomberg said on the 23rd that because of the tough response to the doctors' strike, Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rate for his administration rose by one percentage point. Commentators believe that this will provide the impetus for Yoon's National Power Party to win the parliamentary elections in April this year.
Yoon Suk-yeol has won the support of voters for his tough stance on striking doctors. According to Bloomberg, a poll released by the polling agency Gallup South Korea on the 23rd showed that Yoon Suk-yeol's favorable rating of governance was 34%, an increase of 1 percentage point from the last survey, and the negative rating was 58%, the same as the last survey. The situation has reversed compared to a few weeks ago, when a video showed his wife receiving a designer bag, after which Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rating fell to a nine-month low, the report said.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Gallup's poll was conducted between the 20th and 22nd of this month among 1,003 adults in South Korea. Among the respondents who spoke highly of Yoon Suk-yeol's administration, 17 percent said that "diplomacy is effective", followed by "medical student enrollment expansion policy" (9%), "overall good performance" (6%), "economic and people's livelihood work in place" (5%), "decisive decision, courage and perseverance" (5%), and "national defense and security work in place" (4%). In terms of the reasons for negative evaluations, 16% answered "poor control of the economy, people's livelihood and prices", 12% "arbitrarily and arbitrarily", 10% "insufficient communication", and 7% "poor overall performance".
I hope that the medical community will stop fighting hard and actively explore realistic countermeasures", South Korea's "** editorial said a few days ago that the entire medical community is not unconditionally opposed to the expansion of medical school enrollment, and ** can choose to promote the plan step by step. "The political circles of the ruling and opposition parties should not only pursue political understandings such as the pros and cons of the parliamentary election. There is an urgent need for a sense of responsibility to look forward to the future of the country, and South Korean politicians should actively intervene in mediating dialogue between the medical community. (Yu Wen).
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