KSOI, President Yoon's Approval Rating at 28.9%... 'Support Base Erosion Accelerates Among 20s and Blue-Collar Workers'

Positive Ratings Down 3.3%p, Negative Ratings Up 4.0%p Compared to Last Week's Survey

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[Asia Economy Reporter Naju-seok] In the Korea Society Opinion Institute (KSOI) poll, where the downward trend in approval ratings seemed to have stopped, President Yoon Seok-yeol's approval rating for his administration has shown a decline again, breaking below the 30% support level.

According to a poll conducted by KSOI on behalf of TBS (from the 29th to the 30th, targeting 1,003 men and women aged 18 and over nationwide), the positive evaluation of President Yoon's administration dropped by 3.3 percentage points compared to last week's survey, recording 28.9%. Negative evaluations rose by 4.0 percentage points to 68.5%. Even in last week's poll, the positive evaluation of President Yoon's administration had increased by 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous survey, suggesting the downward trend had halted. Because of this, some analyses suggested the decline in approval ratings had bottomed out, but the downward trend was confirmed again in just one week. The negative evaluation exceeded the positive evaluation by 39.6 percentage points.

In particular, the groups that showed a significant increase in negative evaluations in this poll were people in their 20s (60.8% → 80.2%, up 19.4 percentage points), residents of Incheon and Gyeonggi (63.7% → 71.4%, up 7.7 percentage points), blue-collar workers (59.3% → 76.7%, up 17.4 percentage points), and students (69.1% → 82.3%, up 13.2 percentage points).

Meanwhile, regarding support for the Democratic Party's Supreme Council member candidates, Representative Jeong Cheong-rae led with 18.5%, followed by Representative Go Min-jeong at 12.0%, and Representative Yoon Young-chan at 4.1%. Among Democratic Party supporters, Representative Jeong Cheong-rae had the highest support at 31.7%, followed by Go Min-jeong (16.5%) and Park Chan-dae (4.2%).

The margin of error is ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. For detailed survey methodology and results related to the poll, please refer to the Central Election Poll Deliberation Commission website.

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