President Lee Jae-myung's job approval rose 2 percentage points from a week earlier to 56%. Regarding the Oct. 15 real estate measures, negative views that they were "not appropriate" outnumbered positive ones at 44%.
Korea Gallup said on the 24th that it asked 1,000 voters nationwide aged 18 and older from the 21st to the 23rd whether the president is doing a good job as president, and 56% answered "doing well." That was up 2 percentage points from a week earlier. The share saying "doing poorly" was 33%.
Reasons for positive evaluations were the economy and livelihoods (19%), diplomacy (14%), communication (7%), job competence (6%), and drive, execution, and speed (5%). Reasons for negative evaluations were diplomacy (15%), real estate policy and loan regulations (11%), and pro-China policy and visa-free entry for Chinese nationals (9%).
Regarding the reasons for negative evaluations, Korea Gallup noted, "Before Chuseok, issues led by the ruling party such as pressure for Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae to resign, disputes over facts, and changes to the insurrection trial panel were prominent; last week it was diplomacy and China matters; this week the share of mentions related to real estate increased and rose to the top," adding, "This appears to stem from the Oct. 15 dwellings market stabilization measures announced last Wednesday, but it was not strong enough to reverse perceptions of the president and the ruling party at this point."
This survey also tallied evaluations of the Oct. 15 real estate measures. Thirty-seven percent evaluated them positively as "appropriate," while 44% evaluated them negatively as "not appropriate." By ideological leaning, 57% of progressives in the sample gave positive evaluations, while 67% of conservatives gave negative evaluations.
Party support stood at 43% for the Democratic Party of Korea, 25% for the People Power Party, 3% for the Rebuilding Korea Party, 2% for the Reform Party, and 1% for The Progressive Party.
The Korea Gallup regular poll released that day was conducted through computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) using random sampling of virtual wireless numbers provided by the three mobile carriers. The response rate was 12.3%. Details are available on the website of the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission.