President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating fell to a record low since taking office... Increased criticism of real estate and personnel management

Reasons for negative evaluation include ‘real estate and personnel management’… Democracy 38%, National Power 29%

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Jae-ha = A Gallup Korea opinion poll was released on the 11th, showing that President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating for his administration fell from last week and reached its lowest point since he took office.

According to a survey conducted by Gallup Korea on the 8th to 10th of 1,000 people over the age of 18 across the country, the positive evaluation of President Lee's job performance was 38%, the lowest since he took office.

This is a 2 percentage point (p) drop compared to the previous week’s survey.

The response that they were ‘doing it wrong’ was recorded at 51%, the same as last week. ‘Opinion reserved’ was 11%.

The most common reason for a positive evaluation was 'diplomacy' (19%), followed by 'economy and people's livelihood' (13%), 'overall doing well' (6%), 'communication' and 'job ability and competence' (over 5%), and 'real estate policy' and 'working hard and trying' (over 4%).

The reasons for the negative evaluation were 'real estate policy' (24%), 'personnel' (16%), 'economy and people's livelihood' (10%), 'morality issues and avoidance of trial' (6%), and 'generally wrong' (4%).

Gallup Korea analyzed that “the number of mentions of personnel issues as a reason for negative evaluations has increased,” adding, “This gives us an idea of ​​the impact of the selection of ministerial candidates ahead of the personnel hearings.”

The approval rating for political parties was 38% for the Democratic Party of Korea and 29% for the People Power Party.

The Democratic Party's approval rating was the same as last week, and the People Power Party's fell by 1 percentage point.

The New Reform Party was 3%, the Fatherland Reform Party and the Progressive Party each were 2%, and those with no party affiliation were 26%.

This survey was conducted using telephone interview methods using randomly selected wireless phone virtual numbers. The sampling error is ±3.1%p at the 95% confidence level, the contact rate is 46.7%, and the response rate is 9.4%. For more information, please refer to the National Election Opinion Survey Deliberation Committee website.