The latest joint survey by The Yomiuri Shimbun and the South Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo also asked respondents in the countries of both papers whether they trust Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Trust in the Japanese prime minister by South Korean respondents has improved significantly compared to under the administrations of former Prime Ministers Yoshihide Suga and Shinzo Abe. Kishida scored a response of "trustworthy" from 25% of South Koreans surveyed, as well as the same response from 49% of Japanese surveyed. In the joint survey in 2021, 7% of South Korean respondents said they trusted Suga, while the 2019 survey showed only 5% trusted Abe.
In the latest survey, 43% of Japanese respondents and 38% of South Korean respondents said Yoon can be trusted. For Japanese respondents, this contrasted sharply with the 2021 survey, when only 8% of them said then South Korean President Moon Jae-in could be trusted.
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