Lee Jae-myung's popularity drops slightly but he still ranks first in South Korean presidential candidate popularity survey

In South Korea, a public opinion poll showed that former Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung's popularity rating for the next presidential election candidates dropped slightly, but he still maintained his lead.
The results were announced on the 28th. The survey was conducted by the South Korean polling agency "Real Meter" on the 23rd to 25th of this month, targeting 1,505 men and women aged 18 and over.
According to a survey on favorability of presidential candidates, Lee's popularity dropped by 1.7 percentage points from the previous survey.
Next came former Minister of Employment and Labor Kim Moon-soo with 13.4%, up 1.2 percentage points, and former Daegu Mayor Hong Jun-pyo with 2.7%.
Han Dong-hoon, former chairman of the ruling party's People Power Party, rose 1.2 percentage points to 9.7%, and Lee Jun-seok, a lawmaker from the New Reform Party, rose 0.9 percentage points to 10.2%.
In turn, ruling party lawmaker Ahn Cheol-soo's approval rating rose 1.2 percentage points to 2.5%, followed by Rep.