President Lee Jae-myung's job approval rating rose to 51.4% for the first time in three weeks.
According to a survey conducted by Realmeter at the request of the Energy Economy Newspaper from the 18th to the 22nd on 2,512 voters aged 18 and older nationwide, 51.4% of respondents said the president was performing "well." This represents a 0.3 percentage point increase, marking a successful rebound in the president's job approval rating after three weeks.
The proportion of those who answered that the president was performing "poorly" recorded 44.9%, which also increased by 0.4 percentage points from the previous week.
In a party approval rating survey conducted on 1,004 voters aged 18 and older nationwide from the 21st to the 22nd, the Democratic Party of Korea recorded 45.8%, while the People Power Party reached 35.5%. The Democratic Party recovered its support rate to the 40% range, while the People Power Party saw a slight decline.
The Rebuilding Korea Party was recorded at 3.2%, down 2.5 percentage points in a week, while the Reform Party was at 3.4% and The Progressive Party at 1.5%.
Both surveys were conducted using a wireless automated response method. The sampling error for the presidential job approval rating survey is ±2.2 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, while the sampling error for the party approval rating survey is ±3.1 percentage points at the same confidence level. The response rates were 5.1% and 4.8%, respectively. For further details, refer to the Central Election Poll Survey Deliberation Committee website.