President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's National Administration 'Will Do Well' 49.2%... Down 3.5%p from Last Week

President Moon's Approval Rating Recovers to 40% Range... 42.7%
Party Support: Democratic Party 41.3%, People Power Party 40.7%

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is holding a press conference on the relocation of the Blue House presidential office to the Yongsan Ministry of National Defense building at the press conference room of the Presidential Transition Committee, located in the annex of the Korea Financial Training Institute in Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the 20th. Photo by Yoon Dong-ju doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Seul-gi] A public opinion poll released on the 21st showed that the positive evaluation of President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol's national administration has declined compared to the previous week.

According to a survey conducted by Realmeter on behalf of Media Herald from the 14th to the 18th among 2,521 people aged 18 and over nationwide, 49.2% of respondents said they believe President-elect Yoon will "do well" in carrying out national affairs. This figure dropped by 3.5 percentage points from the survey conducted in the second week of March (10th?11th), which recorded 52.7%.

The response of "will not do well" increased by 4.4 percentage points from the previous survey (41.2%) to 45.6%.

President Moon Jae-in's approval rating for national administration was 42.7%, up 4.6 percentage points from the previous survey (38.1%). Negative evaluations fell by 4.6 percentage points to 54.2%. The gap between positive and negative evaluations was 11.5 percentage points, which is outside the margin of error (±2.0 percentage points at a 95% confidence level).

Regarding party support, the Democratic Party of Korea recorded the highest at 41.3%, up 5.7 percentage points from the previous survey, while the People Power Party dropped 2.5 percentage points to 40.7%. The People’s Party fell 1.2 percentage points to 6.6%, and the Justice Party decreased by 1.0 percentage point to 2.9%.

This survey was conducted via automated response system (ARS) with 97% mobile and 3% landline calls, and the response rate was 8.4%.

For more details, please refer to the Realmeter website.

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