President Lee Jae-myung's job approval rating has fallen from the previous week, marking a new low since taking office, according to a public opinion poll.
In a survey conducted by Gallup Korea of 1,000 adults aged 18 and older nationwide from September 8 to 10, positive evaluations of President Lee's performance stood at 38%.
This is a 2 percentage point drop compared to the previous week's survey, marking the lowest figure since his inauguration.
Among positive evaluations, diplomacy was the most cited reason at 19%, followed by economy and livelihood at 13%, doing well overall at 6%, communication and job competency/competence at 5% each, and real estate policy and working hard/making efforts at 4% each.
Negative evaluations were recorded at 51%, the same as the previous week.
Those with reserved opinions accounted for 11%.
The reasons for negative evaluations were real estate policy at 24%, personnel appointments at 16%, economy and livelihood at 10%, moral issues/avoiding personal trials at 6%, and doing poorly overall at 4%.
Gallup Korea analyzed that mentions of personnel issues increased as a reason for negative evaluations, reflecting the impact of ministerial candidate selections ahead of confirmation hearings.
The agency also explained that real estate issues have consistently remained at the top of negative evaluation reasons since the fourth week of July.
By region, approval dropped by 9 percentage points from the previous week in Seoul to 29%, and fell by 7 percentage points over the same period in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, and North Jeolla Province to 60%.
State approval ratings rose by 3 percentage points each in Daejeon, Sejong, and Chungcheong, and in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongsangnam-do, recording 38% and 35%, respectively.
By age group, people in their 40s dropped 10 percentage points from the previous week to 45%.
Ratings fell by 6 percentage points among those aged 70 and older to 31%, 4 percentage points among those in their 50s to 45%, and 1 percentage point among those in their 60s to 36%.
Meanwhile, ratings rose by 6 percentage points for those aged 18 to 29 to 31%, and 4 percentage points for those in their 30s to 35%.
This survey was conducted through telephone interviews using randomly sampled wireless virtual numbers.
The sampling error is ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, the contact rate was 46.7%, and the response rate was 9.4%.
Further details can be found on the website of the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission.
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