President Lee's approval rating at 44%, down 2 percentage points; 51% say he should cut back on SNS and YouTube [NBS]

[Financial News] Poll results released on the 12th showed that the share of respondents with a positive assessment of President Lee Jae Myung's performance fell 2 percentage points from two weeks earlier to 44%, while 51% said he should reduce his direct communication through social media (SNS) and YouTube.
According to the National Barometer Survey (NBS), conducted by Embrain Public, Kstat Research, Korea Research International and Hankook Research from the 9th to the 11th among 1,001 people aged 18 or older nationwide, 44% said President Lee was “doing a good job” in governing, while 47% said he was “doing a poor job.” Compared with the previous survey, conducted from the 26th to the 28th of last month, positive assessments fell 2 percentage points and negative assessments rose 3 points. Don't know/no response accounted for 9%.
Asked about President Lee directly stating his policy direction and position on SNS or YouTube, 51% said he should cut back because remarks made without sufficient review could cause confusion. Another 42% said he should continue as he is because this allows him to communicate directly with the public, while 7% said they didn't know or did not respond. On the 5th, President Lee released the first episode of his YouTube program “The President's Y.”
By age group, positive assessments of the president's performance stood at 28% among people in their 30s, down 14 percentage points from the previous survey, and 31% among those in their 20s, including 18- and 19-year-olds, down 7 points. The figures were 60% for both people in their 40s and those in their 50s. By political orientation, positive assessments among moderates fell 9 points to 43%, while negative assessments rose 7 points to 46%.
Party support stood at 35% for the Democratic Party of Korea and 25% for the People Power Party. The Democratic Party was down 1 percentage point from the previous survey, while the People Power Party was unchanged. The Rebuilding Korea Party had 4%, while the Reform Party and the Progressive Party each had 1%. The share of respondents who had no party they supported or declined to answer was 33%.
Asked which party they thought would do a better job implementing real estate policy, 34% named the People Power Party and 29% the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party received higher ratings on welfare, foreign affairs and trade, inter-Korean relations and security, and employment. Regarding the National Assembly's passage of the Special Counsel Act on Fabricated Prosecution, 41% said it was “a good thing,” while 39% said it was “a bad thing.”
The survey was conducted by telephone interview using mobile phone virtual numbers (100%). The response rate was 14.3%, and the margin of error was ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. More details are available on the Central Election Poll Deliberation Commission website.
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