Korea: Who needs Trump when a cabal of fairies has a spell on your own president?
As a scandal surrounds President Park Geun-hye, the nation most disapproving of the Republican candidate says it is the least interested in the election result
We’re now peering down the barrel of the next US presidency, and when the hammer drops on election night on November 8, the report of the gun will reach the farthest doorstep, but a startling number of Koreans seem to have already turned away.
A survey commissioned by the South China Morning Post covering six Asian nations found Japanese and Koreans showed the least interest in the presidential race. Forty-four per cent of Koreans surveyed said they were not following it at all. At the same time, Koreans seemed to disapprove of Republican candidate Donald Trump the most.
Only 7 per cent said they favoured him, the lowest of all nations surveyed, with respondents viewing him as morally unfit to hold office (58 per cent), unpredictable (58 per cent) and divisive (52 per cent).
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They said what mattered most in a US president was his or her impact on the economy (47 per cent) and ability to provide “security cooperation” (38 per cent). Trump has not only stated his intention to walk away from trade deals with Korea but to abandon military partnerships in Asia.