President Lee Jae-myung and his wife, Kim Hye-gyeong, are seen greeting as they board Air Force One at Tokyo Haneda Airport in Japan on the 24th of last month, heading to Washington DC for a Korea-US summit with US President Donald Trump after the Korea-Japan summit. Yonhap News,
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‘Results released on the 5th show that President Lee Jae-myung’s approval rating for state affairs has risen to 63%, continuing an upward trend for two consecutive weeks.’,
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, ‘According to a Gallup Korea poll conducted on 1,002 people aged 18 and older nationwide from September 2 to 4, the positive evaluation of President Lee’s job performance was 63%. This is an increase of 4 percentage points from the previous week. President Lee’s approval rating had fallen to 56% in the third week of August but rebounded to 59% last week, continuing to rise this week.’,
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, ‘President Lee, who marks 100 days in office on the 11th, has a support rate that is high compared to former presidents. Among post-100-day evaluations, his rating ranks third following former President Kim Young-sam (83%) and former President Moon Jae-in (78%) since former President Roh Tae-woo.’,
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, ‘The main reason for the positive evaluation was “diplomacy” (18%), followed by “economy and livelihood” (13%), “generally doing well” (9%), “job capability and competence” and “drive, execution, and speed” (each 7%), and “overcoming the previous government” (4%).’,
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, ‘On the other hand, the negative evaluation rate was 28%, down 2 percentage points from the previous week. The reasons for negative evaluations were “economy and livelihood” (15%), “diplomacy” (11%), and “excessive welfare and livelihood support funds” (10%), in order.’,
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, ‘Regionally, the positive evaluation was highest in Gwangju and Jeolla (89%), followed by Seoul (66%), Incheon and Gyeonggi (64%), Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam (61%), Daejeon, Sejong, and Chungcheong (55%), and Daegu and Gyeongbuk (36%). By age group, the positive rate was highest among those in their 40s (81%) and lowest among those aged 70 and older (46%).’,
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, ‘Party support showed the Democratic Party at 41% and the People Power Party at 24%. The Democratic Party dropped 3 percentage points from last week, while the People Power Party rose by 1 percentage point.’,
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, ‘Regarding the major shareholder standard for capital gains tax on listed stocks, 47% favored maintaining the current “more than 5 billion won per item” criterion. “Changing the standard to more than 1 billion won per item” was supported by 27%, while 26% reserved their opinion.’,
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, ‘This survey was conducted via telephone interviews by randomly sampling wireless phone virtual numbers provided by the three mobile telecommunications companies. The response rate was 12.1%, and the margin of error was ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.\n’]