November 3, 2016

"Calls are mounting for a criminal investigation into South Korean President Park Geun-hye over a scandal surrounding Choi Soon-sil, the president's longtime confidante suspected of peddling undue influence and pulling strings behind the scenes.

Park's approval rating dropped to 10.9 percent, according to a local pollster Realmeter survey announced on Thursday. It is based on a poll of 1,518 adults conducted from Monday to Wednesday.

Daily support for Park kept falling from 13.4 percent on Monday to 11.1 percent on Tuesday and 10.2 percent on Wednesday each as public views spread that the 60-year-old private citizen's intervention in state affairs could not happen without the president's protection and connivance."

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