Lee's approval rating inches down to 59.1%: poll

President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating fell slightly from a week earlier partly due to negative sentiment over the deadly collapse of an overpass in central Seoul last week, a survey showed Monday.

In the poll commissioned by EKN newspaper and conducted by Realmeter, the positive assessment of Lee's job performance slipped 0.2 percentage point from a week before to 59.1 percent.

The weekly survey was conducted on 2,008 people aged 18 and older from Tuesday through Friday.

The negative assessm ...