More than 70 percent of South Koreans support transitioning into a system of co-existing with COVID-19, with a majority believing it should start in November after 70 percent of people are fully vaccinated.

The Health Ministry's survey of one-thousand adults from Monday to Wednesday last week found that 20-point-two percent were very much in favor of the transition, while 53-point-one percent expressed their general support, resulting in a combined total of 73-point-three percent approving the shift.

Fifty-two-point-four percent considered late November, after at least 70 percent of the population has completed their vaccination regimen, the appropriate time for transition.

Thirty-point-three percent said late September, after 70 percent of people have had at least one shot, would be appropriate.

The survey conducted by Hankook Research had a confidence level of 95 percent with a margin of error of plus or minus three-point-one percentage points.

Meanwhile, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) Commissioner Jeong Eung-kyeong told a parliamentary committee that she expects to enforce the transition by late October.