There is concern that President Yoon Seok-yeol’s approval rating for state affairs has fallen to 24% and is now in a precarious situation up to 20%.
After the incident of the telegram message that President Yoon sent to the floor leader Kwon Seong-dong of Kwon Seong-dong, floor leader Kwon resigned from his acting role, and the headwinds of the policy to lower the school age to five without collecting public opinion were made day by day. It seems that the downtrend has accelerated with overexploitation. Nevertheless, Kang Seung-gyu, chief of civil society in the presidential office, diagnosed the cause of the decline in Yoon’s approval rating as a malicious frame attack by the opposition party who did not want the president to succeed.
When Gallup Korea asked 1001 people over the age of 18 nationwide on the 2nd to 4th if they thought that President Yoon Seok-yeol was performing his duties well, 24% gave a positive evaluation, 66% gave a negative evaluation, and others withheld their opinion (which 2%, don’t know/rejection of response 8%) said on the 5th.
According to Gallup Korea, the response that President Yoon is ‘doing well’ is the most from the supporters of the People’s Power (52%), while the conservatives (44%) and those in their 70s or older (42%) answered ‘is doing something wrong’ (48%). , 37%), but explained that the opinion of ‘doing something wrong’ was more in most of the respondents’ characteristics.
The time when former President Park Geun-hye, the 18th president, recorded a similar job evaluation was in the third week of October 2016 (25% positive, 64% negative) when suspicions of government intervention were growing, and the 19th President Moon Jae-in was positive during his tenure. The lowest rate was 29% (5th week of April 2021). The positive evaluation was lower than the lowest level during President Moon Jae-in’s tenure.
Of the respondents who negatively evaluated President Yoon Seok-yeol’s job performance (661 people, free responses), ‘personnel affairs’ was the highest at 23%, ‘experience/lack of qualifications/incompetence’ at 10%, and ‘arbitrary/unilateral’ (8 %), ‘lack of communication’ (7%), ‘generally wrong’ (6%), ‘promoting admission to elementary school for 5-year-olds’, and ‘not considering the economy and people’s livelihood’ (more than 5%). Gallup Korea analyzed, “President Yoon is on summer vacation this week, but there have been several issues other than the ‘reducing the school age’ that surfaced on Friday last week.”
In terms of party support, the Democratic Party of Korea showed 39% and the people’s power 34%, indicating that the Democratic Party and the people’s power was reversed within the margin of error. In addition, 23% of the non-party and 4% of the Justice Party came out. Gallup Korea evaluated, “It is the first time since the inauguration of the current government that the ruling party and the first opposition party have reversed their approval ratings.” In particular, Gallup Korea showed that the approval ratings of both parties had soared from just before the presidential election in March to the first week of May. After the election, it gradually declined, with the Democratic Party staying at around 30% and recently rising, and the superiority and inferiority have been reversed.”
The presidential office found that the cause of the decline in President Yoon Seok-yeol’s support for state affairs was an attack on the opposition’s malicious frame, resulting in a backlash from the opposition that ‘they are mistaking the public’s sentiment’.
On the morning of the 4th, Kang Seung-gyu, chief of civil society in the presidential office, was asked on YTN radio’s ‘News King Park Ji-hoon’ when asked, ‘How do you see the president’s approval rating falling to 20% in less than 100 days following the new government was launched? It seems that there are aspects that the president’s secretary or cabinet should sufficiently respond to, but there are aspects that do not.” He said, “We are laying the groundwork for promoting various reform measures. We are attacking with frames.” “It is time to focus on policies for people’s livelihood, not the ideology that the people expected, even though the approval rating is rather low,” said Kang.
In an analysis that the president’s qualities are also mentioned as the cause, Chief Kang said, “It contains enough meaning that the people gave a change of government and clearly sets a goal for what the government should do.” Do you not wish for the success of the Yun Seok-Yeol administration with a malicious frame?” he asked. Chief Kang said, “I am taking such a step that runs counter to the public’s expectations. “If the government changes its government despite such attacks or criticism, it should carry out such tasks.” “It has been less than 100 days since the government took office, but there are aspects that have not yet matured enough, such as time to show results.” claimed that
When asked, ‘People have doubts regarding what to do and what the Yoon Seok-yeol administration’s state policy is,’ Chief Kang said, “It is clearly stated. It is to make the most of the dynamism of the private market by advocating freedom and marketism. Reforms are needed to set things right, and there is resistance from those who are going to be reformed,” he said. Chief Kang explained, “If we clearly put forward indicators for the future generations that are in line with the new era, there will inevitably be strong opposition from those who have different views.” It means that the opposition party’s attacks and reform resistance groups are blaming the opposition. Kang Seung-gyu, a former reporter for the Hankook Ilbo and the Kyunghyang Shinmun, served as a public relations officer and public relations officer during the former president Lee Myung-bak’s Seoul mayor days. He is a pro-MB member from the past.
In response, the Democratic Party criticized it, saying, ‘It is pathetic and pathetic’. Shin Hyeon-young, spokesman for the Democratic Party’s Emergency Response Committee, said at a briefing at the press conference at the National Assembly Communication Center on the same day, “There is no accusation once morest Kang’s ‘blame of the malicious frame of the opposition’. It is pathetic that the presidential office does not acknowledge this.”
Spokesperson Shin pointed out that it is difficult to find that everything from the establishment of a police department to the establishment of a police station and the lowering of the schooling age is not one-way and hastily pursued. The president, who is on vacation, hastily made a ridiculous skit to instruct the public debate on the back of the North,” he pointed out.
Spokesperson Shin said, “As a result, support for the administration of Yun Seok-yeol, who has not been in office for less than 100 days, has plummeted to the 20% level, and calls for human renewal are coming from within the passport. I’m just trying to close it, so I’m stuck in a windless zone, but I don’t think I’m going to come out,” he pointed out. He urged, “Keep in mind that a government that closes its ears to the voices of the people and ignores the demands of the people cannot succeed.”
