President Lee’s approval rating reaches 37.9%, up 3.1 percentage points

Poll results released on the 5th showed a slight decline in President Lee Jae-myung's job-performance approval rating for the first time in three weeks.

A Realmeter poll commissioned by the Energy Economy newspaper put President Lee's job-performance approval rating at 37.4%. The survey covered 2,515 people aged 18 and older nationwide from the 28th of last month through the 2nd of this month, with approval down 0.5 percentage points from the previous week.

Disapproval of the president's job performance stood at 59.8%, down 0.3 percentage points from the previous week. The share answering that they did not know was 2.8%.

Party support was surveyed among 1,009 voters aged 18 and older nationwide on the 1st and 2nd. The Democratic Party recorded 42.5%, while the People Power Party recorded 38.4%.

In the party-support survey, the Democratic Party rose 3.8 percentage points from the preceding poll. The People Power Party fell 1.0 percentage point over the same comparison.

Both polls used automated telephone responses entirely over mobile phones. At the 95% confidence level, the presidential job-performance poll had a margin of error of ±2.0 percentage points and the party-support poll ±3.1 percentage points; their response rates were 3.9% and 3.0%, respectively.