President Lee Jae-myung's approval holds at 37%

President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating stood at 37%. It matched the level recorded three weeks earlier, the lowest since he took office, with no further decline since then.

Gallup Korea released findings on the 9th from a survey of 1,000 voters aged 18 or older nationwide conducted on the 6th–8th. The share approving of his job performance was unchanged from the survey conducted on the 15th–17th of the previous month, while disapproval fell 5 percentage points from the previous survey to 51%. Another 12% withheld judgment.

Among respondents who approved of his job performance, diplomacy was the most frequently cited reason at 24%, followed by the economy and livelihoods at 14%. Among reasons for disapproval, real estate policy accounted for the largest share at 18%, followed by defense, security and North Korea policy at 15%.

Party support stood at 35% for the Democratic Party and 26% for the People Power Party, while 31% supported no party. The Rebuilding Korea Party received 3%, the Reform Party 2% and the Progressive Party 1%.

The survey used interviews conducted by telephone interviewers through randomly selected virtual mobile phone numbers. The margin of sampling error was ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, with a contact rate of 42.3% and a response rate of 9.7%.