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By Son Won-je, Staff Writer

A survey has found that support for Roh Moo-hyun Foundation director Moon Jae-in has moved ahead of Saenuridang emergency measures committee chairwoman Park Geun-hye for the first time.

Polling agency Realmeter stated on Monday that the result of its regular weekly survey for the first week of February showed support for Moon to be at 44.9%, compared to 44.4% for Park. The survey was conducted between January 30 and February 3 among 3,750 voters around Korea, aged at least 19 years old, and used an automatic answering system and involving 20% mobile phones and 80% land lines. It has a 95% confidence level and a sampling error of ±1.6%. Earlier, a survey conducted by the Donga Ilbo on January 24 revealed that Moon had narrowed the gap with Park to 8.3% in a two-candidate battle, with 38.4% support versus Park’s 46.7%. In this Realmeter survey, Seoul National University Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology dean Ahn Cheol-soo held a 11.5% lead over Park in a two-candidate race, with 51.5% support in comparison to Park’s 40.4%.

In a multi-candidate race, Park held on to first place with 31.2%, a rise of 0.7% points over the previous week, followed by Ahn with 21.1% and Moon with 19.3%. The subsequent order of candidates was former Democratic Party leader Sohn Hak-kyu (4.7%), joint United Progressive Party leader Rhyu Si-min (3.6%), and Gyeonggi Province governor Kim Moon-soo (3.2%).

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