The Korea People's Power party's approval rating is at 37%, while the Democratic Party of Korea's approval rating is at 34%, according to a survey result released on the 27th.
According to the nationwide poll survey (NBS) conducted by Embrain, KStat Research, Korea Research, and Korea Research on 1,001 men and women aged 18 and older from 24th to 26th, these party approval ratings were recorded.
In this survey conducted weekly by NBS, the Korea People's Power and Democratic Party's approval ratings were the same as last week.
The suitability for the next presidential candidate was surveyed as follows: Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea 31%, Kim Moon-soo, Minister of Employment and Labor, 13%, Oh Se-hoon, the Mayor of Seoul, 6%, Hong Joon-pyo, the Mayor of Daegu, 6%, and Han Dong-hoon, former leader of the Korea People's Power, 5%.
Among the supporters of the Korea People's Power (366 people), Minister Kim had 30%, Mayor Oh 14%, Mayor Hong 13%, and former leader Han 10%.
Among the supporters of the Democratic Party (337 people), Lee recorded 71%, while Kim Dong-yeon, the Governor of Gyeonggi Province, and Kim Boo-kyum, the former Prime Minister, each had 2%.
When asked about the favorability toward the figures mentioned as candidates for the next presidential election, the response rate indicating "I have a favorable impression" was highest for Lee at 37%. Following him were Minister Kim at 28%, Mayor Hong at 26%, Mayor Oh at 24%, and former leader Han at 19%.
If the presidential election were held this year, the response to which party's candidate people would vote for was 37% for the Democratic Party's candidate, the same as last week. The Korea People's Power candidate increased by 1 percentage point to 35% during the same period.
The proportion of respondents who answered that they have no candidate for the party they would vote for in the presidential election or responded "unknown/no response" was 23%.
Meanwhile, the response rate indicating that "an opposition candidate must be elected for a change of government" was 48%, while the response rate indicating that "a ruling party candidate must be elected for a governmental replication" was 42%. The response for a government change decreased by 1 percentage point from last week, while the response for governmental replication increased by 2 percentage points.
The NBS survey was conducted via telephone interviews using mobile phone virtual numbers (100%). The sampling error is ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. The response rate was 18.8%. For more details, please refer to the website of the Central Election Poll Survey Deliberation Committee.