{"id":135681,"date":"2026-08-28T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/135681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:12:57","slug":"president-lee-jae-myungs-approval-rating-hit-30-for-the-first-time-since-taking-office-a-poll-sho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/135681\/","title":{"rendered":"President Lee Jae Myung’s approval rating hit 30% for the first time since taking office, a poll sho.."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"President \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 President Lee Jae Myung speaks at a Cabinet meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae on the 25th. [Blue House Press Photo Reporters] <\/p>\n

President Lee Jae Myung’s approval rating hit 30% for the first time since taking office, a poll showed.<\/p>\n

According to a survey of 2001 men and women aged 18 or older nationwide from the 22nd to the 24th by Cho Won C&I, a polling agency, on the 26th at the request of Straight News, President Lee’s positive assessment of state administration was 38.9%. The negativity was 57.9% and the ignorance was 3.2%.<\/p>\n

President Lee’s positive assessment was down 4.0 percentage points from the previous survey (August 8-10, 42.9 percent), while negative assessment was up 3.8 percentage points from 54.1 percent to 57.9 percent.<\/p>\n

In the Cho Won C&I survey, President Lee’s positive evaluation of state administration was the highest at 66.1% in early April.<\/p>\n

By age, negative evaluation was higher than positive evaluation in all age groups.<\/p>\n

Those aged 18 to 29 were 30.1% positive and 62.9% negative, 33.1% negative, 65.8% negative, 43.3% positive, 56.3% negative, 40.9% negative, 56.3% positive, 44.2% negative, 53.3% negative, and 54.7% positive and over 70 years old.<\/p>\n

In the party support survey, the Democratic Party of Korea was 43.9%, down 2.5% from the previous survey, and the power of the people was 37.3%, the same as the previous survey. The gap between the two parties has narrowed to 6.6 percent.<\/p>\n

It was followed by 2.8% of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party, 1.9% of the Reform New Party, 1.6% of other parties, 0.8% of the Progressive Party, 10.5% of none, and 1.1% of unknown.<\/p>\n

The survey was conducted in an ARS poll (100% RDD method for mobile phones, randomized proportional allocation by gender, age group, and region). The sampling error is \u00b12.2 percentage points to the 95% confidence level and the response rate is 3.8%. For more information, visit the website of the Central Election Public Opinion Review Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 President Lee Jae Myung speaks at a Cabinet meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68882,68883,31,146,61403,68884,33,51639,60105],"class_list":["post-135681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-age-report","tag-cheong-wa-dae-communications-photo","tag-korea","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-public-opinion-survey","tag-public-opinion-survey-agency","tag-south-korea","tag-state-administration","tag-state-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}