Yoon Approval Rating at 36%... 44% Support Government and Ruling Party in General Election vs 43% for Checks and Balances

4%p Increase Compared to Survey 2 Weeks Ago
Positive Views on US Visit 48% vs Negative 44%
Evaluation of Korea-Japan Summit: Positive 38% vs Negative 52%

A public opinion poll released on the 11th showed that President Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rating for his administration has risen.

Embrain Public, K-Stat Research, Korea Research, and Hankook Research conducted a survey from the 8th to the 10th targeting 1,007 men and women aged 18 and over to evaluate President Yoon's job performance. The results showed that 36% gave a positive evaluation of "doing well," while 55% gave a negative evaluation of "doing poorly."

The positive evaluation increased by 4 percentage points compared to the previous survey conducted two weeks ago, while the negative evaluation decreased by 2 percentage points.

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The most common reason for a positive evaluation of the administration was "because of decisiveness" at 35%, followed by "fairness and justice" (19%) and "competence and rationality" (16%).

On the other hand, the most common reason for a negative evaluation was "being arbitrary and one-sided" at 35%. This was followed by "lack of experience and ability" (30%) and "appointing unsuitable people to high-ranking positions" (10%).

Regarding the recent state visit of President Yoon to the United States, the proportion of positive responses outweighed the negative. 48% answered that there were "achievements," while 44% responded negatively that there were "no achievements."

However, regarding the outcomes of the Korea-Japan summit, 52% responded negatively that there were "no achievements," which was higher than the 38% who responded positively that there were "achievements."

Ahead of next year's parliamentary elections, opinions were evenly split between supporting the current government and ruling party and checking their power. 44% answered that "the government and ruling party should be supported," while 43% said "the opposition party should be empowered to check the government and ruling party."

Party support stood at 32% for the People Power Party and 29% for the Democratic Party of Korea. The Justice Party received 5%, while 32% were in the "undecided" group, answering either "no party support" or "don't know/no response."

The margin of error is ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, and the response rate was 16.0%. For more details, please refer to the website of the Central Election Survey Deliberation Commission.