A new survey shows six out of ten South Koreans support equal gender representation at the National Assembly. 

The Korean Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education said on Tuesday that 62-point-three percent of respondents to a recent nationwide poll would support legislation that raises the number of female lawmakers to the level of their male counterparts. 

More than half of the male respondents supported the plan, while 72-point-six percent of female respondents backed the idea.

Among the polled, 53 percent said women’s participation in Korean politics is still low, citing the political parties’ reluctance to nominate female candidates among other reasons. 

In the June 13th local elections, around 27 percent of the nearly four-thousand elected representatives were women, increasing slightly from the previous provincial elections, but no woman was elected as the head of a metropolitan city or province.

The poll has a confidence level of 95 percent with a margin of error of plus or minus three-point-three percentage points.