President Yoon Seok-yeol’s approval rate has dropped back to the 20% level. Since his tenure has consistently maintained a low approval rating, returning to the 20% level is no longer a hot topic. However, the root causes of President Yoon’s recent negative assessment are changing.
As a result of a Gallup Korea poll of 1,000 adults nationwide from 20 to 22, 28% said President Yoon was doing his job well and 61% said he was wrong. Compared to the previous survey (the 3rd week of September), the positive rating decreased by 5% p (33% → 28%), while the negative rating increased by 2% p (59% → 61%). In this survey, “lack of experience, qualifications / incompetence” (12%) was selected as the main reason for the negative evaluation. The 2nd place was “not examining the economy and people’s livelihood” (10%) and the 3rd place was the staff (8%).
This is a result of the fact that “personal (disaster)” was the main negative evaluation factor at the beginning of his term, but the “personal” factor was rejected and “incompetence” appeared as the main factor. negative evaluation.
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Media Today compared the factors in the negative assessment of the state performance of previous presidents, including President Yoon, who was in the 7th and 8th weeks of his inauguration in July. According to a Gallup Korea poll, President Yoon encountered a so-called “dead cross” where positive and negative ratings were reversed in the seventh week of its inauguration and negative ratings outpaced positive ratings in week eight. Not only President Yoon, but former presidents such as Moon Jae-in and Park Geun-hye, respectively, ranked first among negative rating factors in the 7th and 8th week of their inauguration. Although the approval rating is high, it is the period when criticism of staff failure is the most negative evaluation factor in the early days of the administration.
Among the factors in President Yoon’s negative assessment at the time was one extraordinary except the “greeting”. The second place among the negative ratings was “not looking at the economy and people’s livelihoods”. The economic crisis amplifies other errors and undermines the general momentum of state affairs. Furthermore, he stressed that the economic crisis is a factor that cannot be solved easily, so it may be bad news for the long-running Yun Seok-yeol administration. If President Yoon’s response to this is insufficient, he predicted that various government incompetence other than staff failure could emerge as a factor in the negative assessment.
According to a recent Gallup Korea poll, such a prediction appears to have come true at the time. According to the survey of the 4th week of August (23-25 August), the first place in the negative evaluation was HR (24%), the second place was the lack of experience, qualifications / incompetence (9%) and not looking to the economy and people’s livelihood (8%). In the first week of September (30 August to 1 September) the number one negative evaluation factor was staff (22%) and the “lack of experience and qualifications / incompetence” and “not looking at the economy and livelihoods of people “Both were followed by 8%.
Then, after the Chuseok holiday, in the 3rd week of September (13-15 September), in the survey of the 3rd week of September (13-15 September), ‘don’t look at the economy and people’s livelihood’ and ‘personal’ since the factors for the negative evaluation of the president’s duties were in first place with 11% each and “insufficient / incompetent” “experience and quality” was 9%. While the number of respondents who cited staff as an important factor in the negative evaluation it significantly decreased, in the most recent survey (4th week of September), “incompetence” and “not looking at the economy” were highlighted as the most important factors.
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This has nothing to do with the fact that it was withdrawn while trying to build a new guesthouse and that it caused a “non-payment of condolences” and a “swear controversy” without many performances on this UK tour and in the United States . Following a Realmeter survey of 2,533 voters aged 18 and over nationwide for 5 days from 19 to 23 at the request of the Media Tribune, 34.6% of positive ratings and 62.2% of negative ratings on the progress of the government of President Yoon were found, respectively.
Interestingly, the approval rating rose to 36.6% earlier in the week when expectations were high ahead of the overseas tour, but dropped to 32.9% on Friday 23 last week after the failure of Queen Elizabeth’s condolences and vulgar comments. This overseas tour led to a drop in approval ratings as public opinion, which had hoped to solve economic problems through talks with major advanced countries, was not resolved due to unreasonable controversy.
In a Gallup Korea poll from the 4th week of September, when asked “How do you think the Korean economy will be in the next year compared to the current one?”, 56% answered “It will grow”, more than 12% who replied “It will go better”. “It will be similar” answered 27% and “don’t know / rejected” was 5% respectively. When asked: “How do you think your family’s living expenses will be in the next year compared to the present?”, “It will grow” (36%) compared to “It will get better” (13%).
When asked “how do you think house prices will be in the next year compared to today”, 66% replied “it will fall” and only 14% replied “it will increase”. 14% replied “no change” and 6% replied “don’t know / reject”. When asked “how do you think the Korean stock index will be in the next year compared to the present”, 50% said “it will fall”, more than “it will go up” (15%) or “it will not change” (20%).
Overall, President Yoon can be judged to have failed in his role as a solver in a grim perspective for the future economic situation. This also means that for the moment it is not easy to change the atmosphere of state management.
The margin of error in the Gallup Korea survey is ± 3.1 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. Wireless (90%) and fixed (10%) telephone interviews were conducted and the response rate was 10.4%. The realmeter survey error range is ± 1.9 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. Wireless (97%) and wired (3%) were conducted with an automatic response method (ARS) and the response rate was 3.8%. For more information, visit the website of the National Election Opinion Poll Deliberation Committee.
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