President Park's approval rating stayed at 5 percent this week, unchanged from the previous week, according to a Gallup Korea poll of 1,003 adults conducted from Tuesday to Thursday. It was the lowest for any South Korean president.
Park's approval rating, which moved from 30 percent to 50 percent in the first three years of her presidency, turned downward this year and plummeted over the Choi Soon-sil scandal.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to march in central Seoul this Saturday to demand Park's resignation. Organizers estimated at least 500,000 people would turn out, while police said 160,000-170,000 would take to the streets.
Meanwhile, South Korea is pushing a hush-hush military intelligence pact with Japan after a botched attempt four years ago, as public attention is being centered on the political scandal.
Seoul's defense ministry said the two countries would initial the accord next week in Tokyo to share military intelligence on the DPRK's nuclear and missile programs. If internal procedures are passed smoothly, the deal is forecast to be formally signed in late November.
Former President Lee Myung-bak sought the pact in 2017, but it failed at the last minutes amid a public outcry over the hurried, closed-door deal without any social consensus and parliamentary consultations.
Many South Koreans still see such a deal with Japan as unacceptable as the Japanese leadership has yet to sincerely apologize for its militaristic history. The country was colonized by the Imperial Japan between 1910 and 1945.
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