{"id":145819,"date":"2026-09-07T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/145819\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:46:10","slug":"president-lee-jae-myungs-approval-rating-hits-record-low-of-37-4-drops-to-20s-among-seoul-residents-and-those-in-their-20s-and-30s-realmeter-poll-%ec%82%ac%ed%9a%8c-jkn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/145819\/","title":{"rendered":"President Lee Jae-myung&#8217;s Approval Rating Hits Record Low of 37.4%, Drops to 20s Among Seoul Residents and Those in Their 20s and 30s [Realmeter Poll] : \uc0ac\ud68c : JKN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Lee Jae-myung&#8217;s approval rating for his job performance has dropped by 1.5 percentage points from the previous week, settling at 37.4%, according to a Realmeter poll. His disapproval rating stood at 59.5%, a substantial 22.1 percentage points higher than his approval. This marks an 11 percentage point decline from his 48.4% approval in the third week of July, and a 21.7 percentage point drop compared to just before the June 3 local elections. Factors contributing to this decline are believed to include controversies surrounding appointments and confusion over real estate tax policies.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul, 20s and 30s See Approval Ratings in the 20s<\/p>\n<p>Regionally, Seoul&#8217;s approval rating for the president plummeted by 6.0 percentage points from the previous week to 29.0%. Across age groups, support among young people remained in the 20s, with 18-29 year olds at 28.8% and those in their 30s at 29.8%. Notably, young men showed particularly low support, with 20-somethings at 21.4% and 30-somethings at 20.8%. Support from swing voters also fell by 5.5 percentage points to 35.9%.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1046285.jpg\" title=\"\uc774\uc7ac\uba85\" alt=\"\uc774\uc7ac\uba85\" id=\"article_img_1046285\" style=\"width: 600px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>President Lee Jae-myung (Photo: Yonhap News)<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Party at 41.8%, People Power Party at 37.6% \u2013 4.2%p Gap<\/p>\n<p>In terms of party support, the Democratic Party recorded 41.8% while the People Power Party garnered 37.6%. The gap between the two parties was 4.2 percentage points, remaining within the margin of error for the third consecutive week. Although the Democratic Party&#8217;s support also fell by 1.3 percentage points from the previous week, the People Power Party only saw a marginal 0.1 percentage point decrease, suggesting they failed to gain significant reflective benefits. The Jo Guk Innovation Party stood at 4.5%, the New Reform Party at 2.3%, and undecided voters at 10.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Lee Jae-myung&#8217;s approval rating for his job performance has dropped by 1.5 percentage points from the previous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74196,74197,74194,34841,66846,31,146,74195,112,33],"class_list":["post-145819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-20s","tag-30s","tag-37-4","tag-approval-rating","tag-decline","tag-korea","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-record-low","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145819","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=145819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}