A new poll shows that President Yoon Suk Yeol's approval rating fell slightly over the past week, reaching its second-lowest point since he took office. 

According to the survey conducted by Realmeter on two-thousand-513 adults nationwide from last Monday to Friday, 29-point-six percent of respondents approved of Yoon's handling of state affairs, down zero-point-four percentage points from a week earlier. 

Yoon’s approval rating dipped below 30 percent for the first time in about two years, last reaching 29-point-three percent in the fourth week of August in 2022.

Realmeter attributed the low approval to the weakened public trust in the government amid the prolonged medical crisis. 

Sixty-six-point-seven percent of respondents disapproved of his job performance, up zero-point-three percentage points. 

The survey, commissioned by the Economy Business Newspaper, had a confidence level of 95 percent with a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.