Seoul University students' No. 1 presidential candidate is Lee Jun-seok...7% higher than President Lee Jae-myung (South Korea)

It was revealed that the candidate who received the most support from Seoul University students in the South Korean presidential election held on June 3rd was Lee Jun-seok of the New Reform Party.
His approval rating was over 35%, beating President Lee Jae-myung, who ran as the candidate of the Democratic Party of Korea and was elected, by a margin of over 7%.
On the 9th, the Seoul University newsletter, "Daigaku Shinmun," announced the results of the "2025 Seoul University Undergraduate Political Awareness Survey," revealing the following:
The survey was conducted online from the 14th to the 20th, and included 1,057 students from all undergraduate schools at Seoul National University.
In this survey, Lee Jun-seok came in first with a support rate of 35.1%. Lee Jae-myung came in second with 27.5%, followed by Kim Moon-soo of the People Power Party.
Kim Moon-soo (7.4%) and Kwon Young-guk of the Democratic Labor Party (4.8%) followed. The approval rating of Seoul University's undergraduate students is the same as the actual vote rate in the presidential election (Lee Jae-myung 49%).
42%, Kim Moon-soo 41.15%, Lee Jun-seok 8.34%, and Kwon Young-guk 0.98%).
The professor told the university newspaper, "There was no existing politician who met the needs of young voters who wanted reform and conservatism," and analyzed, "It seems that many students supported candidate Lee Jun-seok as an alternative."
The survey revealed clear differences in political inclinations based on gender among undergraduate students. Among female respondents from Seoul University, 43.0% considered themselves “progressive,” while 1.0% considered themselves “conservative.”
On the other hand, 38.9% of male respondents identified themselves as “conservative” and 21.4% as “progressive.” Professor Kang Won-taek of the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Seoul National University said, “The
The percentage of undergraduates who answered that they were “conservative” has been declining since hitting 40.5% in the 2007 survey, and has now fallen to just 1.5% in 2013.
In 2017, this figure had fallen to 9.4%, but in this latest survey, it had risen sharply to 29.1%. On the other hand, the number of undergraduate students who answered "progress" dropped significantly from 41.8% in 2017 to 29.0% in 2019.
This is the lowest figure recorded since the 1992 survey.