[AKYUNG Poll] President Moon's Approval Rating Rebounds to 40% Range... Up 4.6%p from Before the Korea-US Summit

Positive 41.4% vs Negative 54.8%

[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Ju-yeon] A public opinion poll showed that President Moon Jae-in's approval rating for his national administration, which had been in the 30% range, rebounded to the 40% range after the South Korea-U.S. summit.

On the 1st, Asia Economy conducted a survey on May 29-30 targeting 1,045 voters nationwide aged 18 and older regarding President Moon Jae-in's approval rating. The positive response of "doing well" was recorded at 41.4%, rising 4.6 percentage points compared to the survey conducted just before the South Korea-U.S. summit in the third week of May (May 15-16), which was 36.8%.

During the same period, the negative response of "not doing well" fell by 4.1 percentage points from 58.9% to 54.8%. The gap between positive and negative responses narrowed from 22.1 percentage points to 13.3 percentage points, which is outside the margin of error. The "don't know" response was 3.8%.

By age group, approval ratings increased compared to just before the South Korea-U.S. summit in the 40s (51.0%→54.2%), 50s (37.2%→46.4%), 60s (29.7%→35.3%), and 70 and older (23.4%→40.1%). By region, approval ratings rose everywhere except in the Chungcheong area and Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam.

The overall response rate for this survey was 10.4%. The survey method was wireless ARS with 100% mobile phone virtual numbers, and the sample was extracted with weighted values (cell weighting) by gender, age, and region based on the resident registration population as of the end of January 2021 from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. The sampling error is ±3.0 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.

For detailed survey information, please refer to the Win-G Korea Consulting website or the Central Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.