Asan Poll

2013JUL18
Asan Daily Poll

Sources of Social Conflict

  • Issue/Region :
    Culture and Society/Korean Peninsula
  • By.
    Kim Jiyoon / Research Division, Karl Friedhoff / Chicago Council on Global Affairs

ASAN POLL- The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

THE ASAN PUBLIC OPINION BRIEF

Public Opinion on Social Division
SOURCE OF SOCIAL CONFLICT
July 16-18
On a scale of 0 to 10, how do you perceive the intensity of the following divisions?
(%)

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To unite the nation, President Park Geun-Hye must address Korea’s various political, economic, and social divisions. Polls reveal Koreans perceive class, partisanship, ideological, and generational divisions to be relatively intense

 Respondents rated class division between the rich and poor (7.73) as the most intense, then in descending order, the partisan divide (7.66), the ideological divide (7.21), and the generational divide (6.65). Meanwhile, regional division between Youngnam and Honam (5.89) and the metropolitan-province division (5.59) scored closer to “normal”. While over 60% of respondents gave scores of 6 or above for class division (77.1%), partisan division (72.2%), ideological division (62.7%), and generational division (60.8%), only 40% of respondents rated the regional and metropolitan-provincial divides as 6 or above.

METHODOLOGY

  • The sample size of each survey was 1,000 respondents over the age of 19.
  • The surveys were conducted by Research & Research, and the margin of error is ±3.1% at the 95% confidence level.
  • All surveys employed the Random Digit Dialing method for mobile and landline telephones.

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The sample size of each survey was 1,000 respondents over the age of 19. The surveys were conducte d by Research & Research, and the margin of error is ±3.1% at the 95% confidence level. All surveys employed the Random Digit Dialing method for mobile and landline telephones.

This brief is a product of the Public Opinion Studies Center at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

Contact Karl Friedhoff at klf@asaninst.org.

About Experts

Kim Jiyoon
Kim Jiyoon

Research Division

Dr. KIM Jiyoon is a senior fellow in the Public Opinion Studies Program at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, Dr. Kim was a postdoctoral research fellow at Université de Montréal. Her research interests include elections and voting behavior, American politics, and political methodology. Her recent publications include “Political judgment, perceptions of facts, and partisan effects” (Electoral Studies, 2010), “Public spending, public deficits, and government coalition” (Political Studies, 2010), and “The Party System in Korea and Identity Politics” (in Larry Diamond and Shin Giwook Eds., New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan, Stanford University Press, 2014). She received her B.A. from Yonsei University, M.P.P. in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Karl Friedhoff
Karl Friedhoff

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Karl Friedhoff is a fellow in public opinion and Asia policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He was previously a Korea Foundation-Mansfield Foundation US-Korea Nexus Scholar and a member of the Mansfield Foundation’s Trilateral Working Group. Friedhoff was previously based in Seoul where he was a program officer in the Public Opinion Studies Program at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others, and he has been a frequent guest on both TV and radio to discuss US foreign policy in Asia, South Korea’s politics, and international relations in East Asia. Friedhoff earned his BA in political science at Wittenberg University and an MA in international commerce at Seoul National University.

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