President Lee Jae-myung's job approval rose for a fourth straight week to 58.2%. Analysts said a stock market boom and a push to normalize the real estate market translated into higher support.
Polling firm Realmeter, commissioned by Energy Economy News, surveyed 1,000 voters aged 18 and older nationwide from on the 19th to the 20th and found Lee's job approval at 58.2%, up 1.7 percentage points from a week earlier. Negative ratings fell 1.7 percentage points to 37.2%.
Realmeter said the surge was driven by an unprecedented stock market boom, including the KOSPI breaking above 5,800, and a policy line to normalize real estate, such as loan curbs on owners of multiple homes. The uptrend was pronounced among people in their 40s, the core of economic activity, and in the Seoul–Gyeonggi greater capital area, where sensitivity to real estate issues is high.
In party support, the Democratic Party of Korea rose 3.8 percentage points to 48.6%, while the People Power Party fell 3.5 percentage points to 32.6%. The gap between the two parties widened from 8.7 percentage points to 16 percentage points. Rebuilding Korea Party stood at 3.3%, Reform Party at 2.4%, and The Progressive Party at 1.4%.
Realmeter said, "For the People Power Party, the situation appears to stem from intensified internal strife amid the fallout from the guilty verdict of the former President Yoon and controversy over party leader Jang Dong-hyeok's refusal to 'cut ties with Yoon,' compounded by a backlash over the six-home ownership controversy and a framing against regulations on owners of multiple homes."
The survey used a wireless (100%) automated response method with random digit dialing (RDD) based on a randomly generated sampling frame. The response rate was 4.2%, and the margin of sampling error was ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. For details, see the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.