A study said seven out of ten Koreans do not trust the government. The figure is lower than that for governments in Indonesia, Turkey, or Brazil. Especially for the degree of trust in the judicial system, Korea's ranking was at the bottom.
According to the Government at a Glance 2015 report published on August 9 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the degree of trust on the Korean government by its people was 34 percent as of 2014, ranking 26th out of 41 nations surveyed. This is much lower than the OECD average of 41.8 percent and falls far short of those in the developing world such as Indonesia (65%, 5th), Turkey (53%, 10th), and Estonia (41%, 22nd) and almost equivalent to those of the South African Republic and the Czech Republic.
The latest survey was conducted by Gallup on 1,000 respondents in each country by asking a yes-or-no question "Do you have trust in your country's government" Countries with a lower degree of trust in their government were Italy (31%), Portugal (23%), Spain (21%), and Greece (19%), all of which were European nations hit by a fiscal crisis recently.
