52.7% of Citizens Say "President-Elect Yoon Will Perform Well in State Affairs"... Lowest Expectation Since the 17th Presidency

Top National Priority Identified as 'Economic Growth and Job Creation'
55.9% of Respondents Say "Political Retaliation Will Continue"

President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol is visiting Namdaemun Market in Seoul on the 14th and holding a meeting with the merchant association chairpersons. Photo by National Assembly Press Photographers Group

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] A survey result was released showing that more than half of the public, over 5 out of 10 people, expect President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol to perform well in his administration. This is the lowest expectation for government performance since the 17th presidential election.

According to the results announced on the 14th by Realmeter, which conducted a survey of 1,018 people aged 18 and over nationwide from the 10th to the 11th at the request of Media Herald, 52.7% of respondents believed that President-elect Yoon would perform well in government affairs. Meanwhile, 41.2% responded that he would not perform well, and 6.1% said they did not know.

In past surveys conducted by Realmeter immediately after the election of previous presidents, the percentage of respondents who answered "will do well" was 79.3% for former President Lee Myung-bak, 64.4% for former President Park Geun-hye, and 74.8% for President Moon Jae-in.

The reform tasks that President-elect Yoon should consider most importantly were surveyed in the following order: political reform (27.3%), prosecution reform (21.9%), media reform (17.0%), labor reform (9.8%), bureaucracy reform (9.0%), and conglomerate reform (5.3%).

Respondents identified the top national values for the next government as justice (33.5%), harmony (19.7%), and communication (16.2%), in that order. The highest priority national tasks were economic growth and job creation (24.4%), followed by political reform and anti-corruption (23.6%), and resolving real estate issues such as stabilizing housing prices (16.4%).

Additionally, more than half of respondents predicted that political retaliation would continue under the next government. In response to the question about the outlook for continued political retaliation, 55.9% answered "yes," while 30.8% answered "no." This represents a 17.3 percentage point decrease compared to the 73.2% "yes" response in the same survey conducted last November.

Meanwhile, the positive evaluation of President Moon Jae-in's government performance was surveyed at 38.1%, down 5.8 percentage points from the previous survey conducted on the 7th and 8th (43.9%). Conversely, the negative evaluation increased by 7.3 percentage points from 51.5% to 58.8%.

Regarding party support, the People Power Party recorded 43.2%, up 4.1 percentage points from the previous survey, while the Democratic Party of Korea dropped 5.4 percentage points to 35.6%. The People Party rose 2.6 percentage points to 7.8%, and the Justice Party also increased by 1.1 percentage points to 3.9%.

The margin of error for this survey is ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, and it was conducted using an automated response system (ARS) with 95% mobile and 5% landline calls. For more details, please refer to the Realmeter website.

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