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▲ President Lee Jae-myung
A Gallup Korea poll released today (Sept. 11) showed that President Lee Jae-myung's state approval rating fell from the previous week, marking a record low since taking office.
According to the survey conducted by Gallup Korea among 1,000 adults aged 18 and older nationwide from Sept. 8 to 10, positive evaluations of President Lee's job performance stood at 38%, the lowest since his inauguration.
This represents a 2 percentage point decrease compared to the previous week's survey.
The response that he is "doing a poor job" remained unchanged from the previous week at 51%.
Those who withheld their opinion accounted for 11%.
Among the reasons for positive evaluations, "diplomacy" was the highest at 19%, followed by "economy and people's livelihood" (13%), "generally doing well" (6%), "communication" and "job capability and competence" (tied at 5%), and "real estate policy" and "working hard and making efforts" (tied at 4%).
Reasons for negative evaluations were led by "real estate policy" at 24%, followed by "personnel appointments" (16%), "economy and people's livelihood" (10%), "moral issues and avoiding personal trials" (6%), and "generally doing poorly" (4%).
Gallup Korea analyzed, "Mentions of personnel issues as a reason for negative evaluations have increased further," adding, "This gave a glimpse of the fallout over cabinet nominee selections ahead of confirmation hearings."
It also noted, "The real estate issue has consistently ranked at the top of reasons for negative evaluations since the fourth week of July."
By region, approval dropped 9 percentage points from the previous week in Seoul (29%) and fell 7 percentage points over the same period in Gwangju-South Jeolla and North Jeolla (60%).
Conversely, state approval ratings rose by 3 percentage points each in Daejeon-Sejong-Chungcheong (38%) and Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam (35%) compared to the previous week.
By age group, people in their 40s recorded 45%, down 10 percentage points from the previous week.
Ratings fell by 6 percentage points for those aged 70 and older (31%), 4 percentage points for those in their 50s (45%), and 1 percentage point for those in their 60s (36%).
Ages 18–29 (31%) and those in their 30s (35%) rose by 6 percentage points and 4 percentage points, respectively.
In party support, the Democratic Party of Korea recorded 38% and the People Power Party 29%.
Support for the Democratic Party remained the same as the previous week, while the People Power Party fell by 1 percentage point.
Among moderates, the Democratic Party showed 38% support and the People Power Party 22%.
Voters who do not support any specific party stood at 34%.
The Reform Party registered 3%, the Rebuilding Korea Party and the Progressive Party 2% each, and the unaffiliated voter block was 26%.
This survey was conducted through telephone interviewer interviews using randomly sampled wireless virtual numbers.
The sampling error is ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, the contact rate is 46.7%, and the response rate is 9.4%.
(Refer to the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission website for detailed information)
(Photo: Yonhap News)
※ Please note: This article was translated by AI and may contain errors.
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