The results of a public opinion poll on the 17th showed that the positive evaluation of President Yoon Seok-yeol’s performance in state affairs rose slightly for the second week in a row.
As a result of a Realmeter survey of 2014 adults nationwide from the 11th to the 14th at the request of the Media Tribune, the positive evaluation of President Yoon’s performance in state affairs rose 1.1 percentage points from the previous week to 33.1%. Negative evaluation fell 1.6 percentage points to 64.2%.
In a Real Meter survey, President Yoon’s approval rating fell to 31.2% in the 4th week of September due to ‘controversy over profanity’ during his overseas tour, and then rebounded slightly for the second week in a row.
The positive evaluations were Daejeon·Sejong·Chungcheong (9.1% point↑), Seoul (4.4%point↑), Daegu·Gyeongbuk (2.2%point↑), 20s (4.2%point↑), 30s (3.4%point↑) , those in their 50s (3.2 percentage points ↑), and conservatives (2.2 percentage points ↑).
Negative evaluations increased in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam (4.4 percentage points ↑), Gwangju and Jeolla (5.5 percentage points ↑), people in their 60s (4.6 percentage points ↑), and shamans (4.1 percentage points ↑).
Bae Cheol-ho, a senior expert at Realmeter, said, “North Korea and security issues have traditionally acted as a surge in approval ratings through the gathering of conservatives.” did.
He continued, “The middle class and the shady class are likely to react more sensitively to economic solutions such as interest rate hikes and inflation rather than North Korea and security issues.” It was evaluated that it did not help increase the approval rating by igniting it into an extreme camp battle,” he added.
In this opinion poll, the party’s approval rating for the Democratic Party was 46.4%, down 2.8 percentage points from the previous week, and the People’s Power rose by 1.1 percentage points to 36.3%. Regarding the Democratic Party’s support for political parties, Bae explained, “Controversies such as Lee Jae-myung’s controversy over holding stocks related to the National Defense Commission, ‘self-defense forces’ and ‘pro-Japanese’ remarks, and Rep. Kim Yong-min’s participation in the ‘impeachment rally’ were factors that contributed to the decline in the approval rating.”
The margin of error in this study is ±2.2 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. The wireless (97%) and landline (3%) automatic answering phone survey was conducted, and the response rate was 4.2%. For more information, visit the website of the National Election Opinion Survey Deliberation Committee.
Shin Hyun-bo, reporter at Hankyung.com greaterfool@hankyung.com