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Do you believe what the Korean government says? Probably not, especially after having witnessed a series of bizarre events taking place in the nation following April’s ferry disaster and the discovery of fugitive Yoo Byung-eun’s dead body.

Is the nation’s first female President Park Geun-hye fulfilling her campaign promises unlike her predecessors? And the answer will be once again “no”, since she has already ditched many of her major pledges, including a universal pension plan and reducing the length of the mandatory military service for males to 18 months from the current 21 months.

Now, forget about the all recent events and shipping tycoon Yoo’s mysterious death that made you even more skeptical about the Korean government’s trustworthiness.

According to an annual report released Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme, only 23 percent of the Koreans it surveyed between 2007 and 2013 answered that they had trust in government.

That leaves Korea as one of the world’s least trusted countries by its citizens among the 148 countries that the UN agency surveyed on the levels of trust in government. In fact, Korea was ranked 10th worst performing country in the category along with Angola, Pakistan and Portugal.

Greece topped the “disgrace list” with only 13 percent of its people replying they have faith in their government, followed by Lithuania and Japan, which suffered the triple earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster in 2011.

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