Lee's approval rating falls for 2nd consecutive week: poll

President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating dropped to 46.3 percent this week, a poll showed Monday, marking its second straight weekly decline.

In the poll conducted by Realmeter and commissioned by the EKN newspaper, the positive assessment of Lee's job performance fell 2.1 percentage points from a week before, while his negative assessment rose 1.5 percentage points to 49.5 percent.

Realmeter attributed the decline to a controversy surrounding the sale of Lee's apartment and his remarks suggest ...