President Lee Jae-myung's job approval rating came in at 60%.
Korea Gallup said on the 19th that, in a survey of 1,001 people aged 18 and older nationwide conducted 16–18, 60% of respondents rated President Lee's job performance as "doing well." This was up 2 percentage points from the previous week.
By contrast, the share responding "doing poorly" was 31%, down 3 percentage points from a week earlier. "No opinion" was tallied at 9%.
As reasons for a positive evaluation of the president's job performance, "economy and people's livelihood" ranked highest at 13%, followed by "communication (12%)," "diplomacy," and "doing well overall," each at 11%. By contrast, among reasons for a negative evaluation, "diplomacy" ranked highest at 18%.
As for party support, the Democratic Party of Korea recorded 41% and the People Power Party 24%. The Rebuilding Korea Party was 2%, the Reform Party 3%, and The Progressive Party 1%, respectively.
The survey was conducted by interviewer-administered phone interviews to randomly generated virtual mobile numbers. The sampling error was ±3.1 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, with a contact rate of 44.9% and a response rate of 11.8%.
For details, see the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.