Jeonnam Governor Kim Young-rok Regains '1st Place' in Nationwide City and Province Governors' Evaluation After 9 Months

Province Maintains Unchallenged 1st Place in Resident Life Satisfaction Evaluation for 22 Consecutive Months

[Muan=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Kim Young-rok, Governor of Jeonnam Province, has risen to first place again after 9 months in an evaluation survey targeting 15 metropolitan governors of the 7th local government.

According to Jeonnam Province on the 5th, in the February evaluation survey of city and provincial governors conducted by the polling specialist Realmeter, Governor Kim received a positive rating of 66.7%, up 2.4 percentage points from last month. He regained the top spot for the first time since May last year.

Lee Jae-myung, Governor of Gyeonggi Province, who had been in first place, came in second with 65.7%, just 1.0 percentage point behind Governor Kim, and third place went to Lee Cheol-woo, Governor of Gyeongbuk Province (53.9%).

The average positive rating for all 15 city and provincial governors was 48.5%.

Governor Kim’s recovery of first place after 9 months is analyzed to be due to his steady implementation of ambitious plans to increase jobs for residents by creating the world’s largest offshore wind power complex based on the Jeonnam-type win-win jobs, and to lead the Korean New Deal.

In fact, on the 5th of last month, Governor Kim held the first regional balanced New Deal tour event attended by the president, ministers of various departments, and members of the National Assembly. At this event, he reported plans to create an 8.2GW offshore wind power complex, equivalent to the power output of eight nuclear reactors, with an investment of 48 trillion won.

Through this, 120,000 direct and indirect jobs will be created, and especially, by realizing a profit-sharing job model in which local residents participate in the power generation project, Governor Kim expressed his determination to realize Jeonnam-type win-win jobs where offshore wind power companies, manufacturers, and local residents grow together.

Along with this, Jeonnam Province recorded 67.9% in the resident life satisfaction survey, maintaining the undisputed first place for 22 consecutive months in the resident life satisfaction evaluation among 17 cities and provinces.

Next were Gyeonggi Province with 67.1% and Jeju Special Self-Governing Province with 66.1%. The national average resident life satisfaction for metropolitan cities and provinces was 56.3%.

Meanwhile, in the evaluation survey targeting superintendents of education in cities and provinces nationwide, Jang Seok-woong, Superintendent of Jeonnam Education Office, maintained first place for 22 consecutive months with a positive rating of 53.3%. He was followed by Noh Ok-hee, Superintendent of Ulsan Education Office, with 43.7%, and Lee Seok-moon, Superintendent of Jeju Education Office, with 43.0%. The average positive rating for all superintendents of education nationwide was 39.7%.

This survey was conducted from January to February using a random telephone dialing automated response method targeting 8,500 residents aged 18 or older nationwide (500 per metropolitan city and province). Statistical analysis was conducted on 17,000 people using a two-month moving time series data analysis technique.

Statistical adjustment was made by applying weights by gender, age, and region based on the resident registration population statistics from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety as of the end of January. The sampling error for each metropolitan government was ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, and the response rate was 5.2%.

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