Lee's approval rating falls to 62.2 pct: poll

Lee-approval rating

Lee's approval rating falls to 62.2 pct: poll

SEOUL, April 27 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating stayed above 60 percent for the seventh consecutive week, though it fell from a week earlier amid economic concerns linked to the ripple effects of the war in the Middle East, a poll showed Monday.

According to the survey conducted by Realmeter and commissioned by the EKN newspaper among 2,509 respondents aged 18 and older, 62.2 percent positively assessed Lee's performance, down 3.3 percentage points from the previous poll, which had marked a record high since Lee took office in June 2025.

Negative assessments went up 3.4 percentage points to 33.4 percent, while 4.4 percent said they were unsure.

The pollster partly attributed the fall in approval rating to rising oil and consumer prices due to the war between the United States and Iran.

The survey had a margin of error of 2 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.

President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a business forum in Hanoi, Vietnam, on April 23, 2026. (Yonhap)