[Polpol News] President Yoon's Approval Rating Stops Falling After 4 Consecutive Weeks... Rises 0.3%p to 29.9%

Realmeter Regular Public Opinion Poll
People Power Party and Democratic Party Narrow Gap Within Margin of Error

President Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rating for his administration's performance has slightly rebounded. After four weeks of decline, President Yoon's approval rating has at least stopped falling further, but it still remained in the high 20% range.

According to a public opinion poll released on the 9th by the polling firm Realmeter (commissioned by Energy Economy Newspaper, conducted from the 2nd to the 6th, targeting 2,508 voters aged 18 and over nationwide, with 97% mobile and 3% landline using automated response), President Yoon's approval rating rose by 0.3 percentage points from the previous weekly survey to 29.9%. Negative evaluations decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 66.1%.

President Yoon's approval rating had shown a slight downward trend each week after hitting 33.6% in the second week of August, dropping to 30.7%, 30.0%, and 29.6%. With this recent increase, the approval rating was able to avoid falling to its lowest point since taking office.

In the party approval rating survey (commissioned by Energy Economy Newspaper, conducted on the 5th and 6th, targeting 1,001 voters aged 18 and over nationwide, with 97% mobile and 3% landline using automated response), the People Power Party's approval rating rose by 1.8 percentage points to 34.6%, while the Democratic Party's approval rating fell by 2.1 percentage points to 40.1%. As a result, the gap between the two major parties narrowed to 5.5 percentage points, falling within the margin of error after one week.

The Innovation Party for National Reform dropped by 0.2 percentage points to 7.8%, and the Reform New Party rose by 0.2 percentage points to 4.1%, respectively.

For more detailed information regarding the poll, please refer to the Central Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.