President Moon’s approval rating of 34% is the lowest since inauguration… “LH shock was great” [갤럽]

President Moon Jae-in’s government approval rate recorded 34%, the lowest since taking office. The corruption rate also hit a high of 59%.

On the 26th, Gallup Korea, a company specializing in public opinion polls, announced on the 26th that as a result of a survey of President Moon’s job performance evaluation of 1001 people aged 18 and over nationwide on the 23rd to 25th, the positive evaluation recorded 34% and negative evaluation 59%. This is the lowest level found in the Gallup survey since Moon took office. 7% reserved comments.

The positive rating was 34%, down 3 percentage points (p) from last week (37%), and the negative rate rose 4%p from last week (55%) to 59%.

The positive-negative rate by age is 18-29 years old (hereinafter ’20s’) 30%-53%, 30s 38%-58%, 40s 49%-48%, 50s 31%-64%, 60s+ 26%-69%.

By region, the positive rating in Seoul was 26%, the second lowest after Daegu and Gyeongbuk (24%).

By the party they support, 73% of the supporters of the Democratic Party positively evaluated the performance of the presidential duties, and 98% of the supporters of the people’s power were negative. Even among the shamans who do not currently support a party, the rate of negativity was ahead (20% positive, 64% negative).

The affirmation rate of presidential duties by political orientation was 66% for the progressive, 27% for the middle class, and 12% for the conservative class. Compared to last week, the change was noticeable in the middle class (positive rate 36%→27%, negative rate 56%→65%).

The reasons for the positive evaluation are’cope with the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19)’ (27%),’I am good at overall’ (9%),’Efforts for the common people’,’Do my best/do my best’ (more than 5%), ‘Expanding welfare’,’Honesty/Honesty/Transparency’ (more than 4%),’There is subjectivity and confidence’,’Prosecution reform’,’Fit to the basics / Follow the principles / Fairness’,’Crisis response / Situation response’ (More than 3%).

The reasons for the negative evaluation are’real estate policy’ (34%),’lack of solving economic/public welfare problems’ (8%),’unfair/meaningly poor’,’overall insufficient’ (above 6%),’dogmatic/ One-sided/partially’,’Insufficient coping with Corona 19′ (more than 4%),’personal affairs’,’Unreliable/unfavorable’, and’Lack of leadership/incompetent’ (above 3%) were pointed out.

As for the reason for the negative evaluation, the proportion of problems related to real estate policy exceeded 30% in the third week.

Gallup said, “It is estimated that the speculation of Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) overlapped with distrust of existing real estate policies, and housing disclosures are in the wake of the realization.” The presidential affirmation rate in Seoul has been below 30% since last week, and the negative rate is 65%, similar to that of Daegu and Gyeongbuk (68%).

This survey was conducted in the form of an interview with a telephone surveyor, with a sample error of ±3.1%p (95% confidence level) and a response rate of 16%. Details can be found on the website of the Central Election Polls Review Committee.

Reporter Bae Jae-seong [email protected]