President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating falls for second week to 35.2%

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.

Approval of President Lee Jae-myung's performance rose for the first time in three weeks.

A survey released by Realmeter on the 19th put approval of President Lee's performance at 37.3% and disapproval at 60.4%. Commissioned by Asia Economy, it covered 2,520 people aged 18 and over nationwide on the 12th–16th; 2.3% answered that they did not know.

Compared with the previous week, approval rose 2.1 percentage points and disapproval fell 1.0 percentage point. The gap between approval and disapproval was 23.1 percentage points, outside the margin of error.

Regional increases in approval included 6.0 percentage points in Incheon and Gyeonggi, 3.6 percentage points in Daejeon, Sejong and Chungcheong, and 2.8 percentage points in Daegu and North Gyeongsang. By age, approval rose 8.1 percentage points among those aged 70 and older and 3.6 percentage points among those in their 60s.

Some groups recorded declines in approval. It fell 5.0 percentage points in South Jeolla, Gwangju and North Jeolla, and 3.3 percentage points among those in their 30s.

The party support survey covered 1,005 eligible voters aged 18 and over nationwide on the 15th–16th. Support for the People Power Party was 40.9%, while support for the Democratic Party of Korea was 36.2%.

Democratic Party support rose 0.7 percentage point from the previous week, while People Power Party support fell 0.4 percentage point. The gap between the two parties was 4.7 percentage points, remaining within the margin of error for a ninth consecutive week.

Both surveys used automated response calls (ARS) to randomly selected mobile phone numbers only, and each had a response rate of 2.7%. At the 95% confidence level, the sampling error was ±2.0 percentage points for presidential performance and ±3.1 percentage points for party support.