Negative Assessment of Presidential Performance Rises for Third Straight Week, from 59.5% to 63.3%

Negative assessments of the president's job performance stood at 63.3%.

In a wireless RDD automated response survey of 2,515 adults nationwide conducted by RealMeter from September 6 to 10, 2026, 33.8% of respondents rated the president's job performance positively, while 63.3% rated it negatively.

Job Performance Ratings Decline for Third Consecutive Week

The positive rating fell 3.6 percentage points from 37.4% in the previous survey on September 7. In the August 31 survey, the positive rating stood at 38.9%, and it has now declined for three consecutive surveys, with a cumulative drop of 5.1 percentage points over the period.

Negative ratings moved in the opposite direction. From 58.7% in the August 31 survey, the negative rating rose to 59.5% in the September 7 survey, and climbed further to 63.3% in this survey, marking a third consecutive increase with a cumulative rise of 4.6 percentage points.

Party Support Ratings

In party support ratings, the People Power Party registered 42.1% and the Democratic Party of Korea 36.1%, a gap of 6.0 percentage points between the two parties.

The People Power Party's support rating jumped 4.5 percentage points from 37.6% in the September 7 survey. The Democratic Party of Korea, meanwhile, fell 5.7 percentage points over the same period, from 41.8% to 36.1%.

Compared with the August 31 survey, the People Power Party rose 4.4 percentage points from 37.7% to 42.1%, while the Democratic Party of Korea dropped 7.0 percentage points from 43.1% to 36.1%.

Support ratings for other parties in this survey came to 4.7% for the Cho Kuk Innovation Party, 1.3% for the Progressive Party, and 1.3% for the Reform Party. The Cho Kuk Innovation Party rose 0.2 percentage points from the previous survey (4.5%), while the Progressive Party held steady at 1.3%. The Reform Party fell 1.0 percentage point from 2.3% to 1.3%, a decline of 1.3 percentage points compared with the August 31 survey (2.6%).

Survey Overview

Commissioner: RealMeter
Surveyor: RealMeter
Survey period: September 6 – September 10, 2026
Respondents: 2,515 men and women aged 18 and older nationwide
Method: Wireless RDD automated response survey (ARS)
Response rate: 4.5%
Margin of error: ±2 percentage points at a 95% confidence level
Weighting: Weights applied by gender, age group, and region

For further details, please refer to the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission website (nesdc.go.kr).