President Lee's Approval Rating Falls Back Into the 30s at 39% ... Democratic Party Rises to 39% [Gallup Korea]

[Financial News] A poll released on the 13th found that President Lee Jae Myung's job approval rating had fallen back into the 30% range after one week, while the Democratic Party's rating rose to 39%.
According to results announced on the 13th by Gallup Korea, which surveyed 1,002 people aged 18 or older nationwide from the 10th to the 12th, 39% said President Lee was doing a “good job” in office, down 2 percentage points from the previous week.
The share who said he was “doing a bad job” was 50%, unchanged from the previous week, while 10% gave no opinion. The gap between positive and negative assessments widened from 9 to 11 percentage points.
The most common reason for a positive assessment was “the economy and people's livelihoods” (19%), followed by “foreign affairs” (17%) and “communication” (9%). The leading reasons for a negative assessment were “real estate policy” (17%), “the economy and people's livelihoods” (15%), and “moral character issues/avoiding his own trial” (12%). The share citing “moral character issues/avoiding his own trial” as a reason for a negative assessment rose 4 percentage points from 8% the previous week.
In party support, the Democratic Party rose 3 percentage points from the previous week to 39%, while the People Power Party fell 2 points to 26%. The gap between the two parties widened from 5 percentage points in the last week of October to 8 points in the first week of November and 13 points this week. It has been outside the margin of error for two consecutive weeks.
The Rebuilding Korea Party had 4%, the Reform Party 3%, and the Progressive Party 1%, while 27% were unaffiliated.
The survey was conducted through interviewer-administered telephone interviews using randomly selected virtual mobile-phone numbers. The margin of error was ±3.1 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. The response rate was 10.1%, and the contact rate was 43.9%. More details are available on the Central Election Poll Deliberation Commission website.
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