Seoul, May 23
South Korean Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung was leading his People Power Party (PPP) rival Kim Moon-soo with 45 per cent support against Kim's 36 per cent, a survey showed Friday.
In a Gallup Korea survey conducted on 1,002 adults from Tuesday to Thursday, candidate Lee Jun-seok of the minor New Reform Party came in third with 10 percent. Eight percent said they were undecided.
The DP's Lee declined by 6 percentage points compared with a week earlier, while Kim and Lee Jun-seok saw increases of 7 percentage points and 2 percentage points, respectively.
The support for the liberal DP was at 42 per cent, compared with 36 per cent for the conservative PPP.
The margin of error was 3.1 percentage points at a 95 per cent confidence level, news agency reported.
Meanwhile, on Friday, four presidential candidates were set to wrangle over social issues in their second TV debate, with the June 3 election just 11 days away.
Lee Jun-seok of the minor New Reform Party (NRP) garnered his first double-digit support, as Kim continued to appeal the NRP candidate to merge their candidacies to better challenge the DP's Lee.