Survey: 61.4 % Support Gov't Settling Past Historical Issues
Written: 2004-07-29 00:00:00 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
A recent survey shows that most South Koreans positively assess the government's efforts to revise a special law aimed at holding accountable pro-Japanese collaborators. In the survey, commissioned by the Korea Society Opinion Institute, 61.4 percent of the 700 people polled responded that the government's efforts to investigate and redress lingering question marks from the nation's checkered history should continue. Meanwhile, 56.6 percent considered "unnecessary" the ruling party's demand for opposition leader Park Geun-hye to apologize for the authoritarian rule of her late father, President Park Chung-hee. As for the current third term of the Truth Commission on Suspicious Deaths, nearly 70 percent of those polled gave their approval to its continued investigations. The survey also found clear and even divisions in the public's political affiliation, with 29.4 percent supporting the ruling Uri Party, 29.8 percent aligned with the main opposition Grand National Party, 13.4 percent backing the progressive Democratic Labor Party and 23 percent with no political affiliation. The survey's margin of error stands at +/- 3.7 percent.
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