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The Constitutional Court session on the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye

Eight of ten South Koreans favorably view the Constitutional Court’s Mar. 10 ruling removing Park Geun-hye from the presidency, survey results show.

A survey of 1,008 adults aged 19 and over conducted by the polling agency Real Meter, commissioned by MBN and Maeil Business Newspaper, just after the decision showed 86% responding the Constitutional Court had “done the right thing” when asked for their views on the ruling upholding Park’s impeachment.

The number was up 9.1 percentage points from the 76.9% who supported the impeachment in a Mar. 8 survey by the same agency. Another 12% of respondents said the court’s impeachment decision was “a mistake,” a drop of 8.3 percentage points from the 20.3% who opposed the impeachment in the Mar. 8 survey.

92% of respondents said they would “accept” the court’s ruling, while just 6% said they “cannot accept it.”

The survey was conducted by mobile phone (90%) and landline (10%) and had a margin of error of ±3.1% with a 95% confidence level.

By Kim Ji-eun, staff reporter

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