If it was time for South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to be concerned last week, then it is now nearing time to panic.

Yoon’s approval stands at just 28% in Gallup Korea’s newest poll, after polling from RealMeter and Gallup Korea the previous week put his approval rate in the low 30s, with significant losses among demographics that should be his core supporters.

These kinds of low approval rates to start a presidential term are not unprecedented. Just months after taking office in 2007, Lee Myung-bak’s approval rates had fallen to 21%. One poll placed his approval rate as