The reason why President Yoon Seok-yeol received a 10% approval rating from reporters in a poll

Reporters’ approval rating for President Yoon Seok-yeol’s state affairs was only around 10%. Negative evaluations are overwhelming no matter which outlets or related media departments. Reporters also expressed concern among journalists about going straight into the political world.

According to a poll on the 58th anniversary of the founding of the Korea Journalists Association, released by the Association of Journalists on the 17th, 10.7% said ‘I’m doing well’ and 85.4% said ‘I’m doing something wrong’. Only 1.3% of respondents said they were ‘very good’, while 47.6% said ‘very wrong’. These are the results of a survey carried out between 29 July and 7 August for reporters from 199 media companies affiliated with the Association and commissioned by the Association of Journalists to Macromill Embrain.

The score for all policy areas, such as economy, North Korea, diplomacy, and human resources (public officials), is also poor. The average score for the four question areas was 2.1 out of 5. ‘Public Personnel’, which received the lowest evaluation, was 1.56 points, less than 2 points. In order of the highest score, △ ‘North Korea policy’ with 2.33 points △ ‘foreign policy’ with 2.29 points △ ‘economic policy’ with 2.2 points △ ‘public officials’ with 1.56 points.

Negative evaluations were made regardless of the media and the departments the reporters belonged to. The Correspondents’ Association reported, “According to the type of press, the negative evaluation of general channels and specialist news (76.4%) was the lowest, and 80 to 90% of all other types of media showed a negative evaluation. In this case, it found that not all respondents supported President Yoon.” Among the respondents who said their political orientation was ‘very conservative’, the only positive evaluation was 51.6%, the majority, and the negative evaluation was 48.4%.

President Yoon’s questions and answers on his way to work, which the presidential office calls ‘door stepping’, receive positive reviews. 57.7% of the reporters who responded to the survey gave a positive evaluation and 34.8% gave a negative evaluation. In particular, the positive evaluation of reporters belonging to comprehensive program and news channels (70.9%) and national daily newspapers (62.6%) is high. According to a section, 81% of reporters in charge of editorial and commentary regarded President Yoon’s questions and answers on his way to work positively.

The main priorities for the Yoon Seok-yeol government’s media policy, chosen by reporters, are △ expanding support for local media (27.9%), △ preparing measures to ensure independence such as improving the governance of public broadcasting (24.5%), △ promoting portal news links and removal of editorial rights (22.7%). For all tasks, the response rate of interest-related media is high. Local daily newspapers (70.7%) and local private broadcasting (42.9%) saw expanding support for local media as urgent tasks, while terrestrial broadcasting (69%) and general and news-specialist channels (49.1%) saw policies to improve the governance of public broadcasting as urgent tasks. In the case of portal news outlink promotion, the support of reporters from professional daily (52.6%), economic daily (38.9%), and internet media (35.8%) is high.

On the other hand, it was found that the majority of reporters had a problem with direct access to politics. 67.2% of current reporters answered ‘worry’ about going directly to the government, local governments, public institutions, and politicians. On the other hand, in terms of direct business trips, 50.7% of respondents answered ‘I am concerned’, which was similar to 49.3% of ‘I am not concerned’. In particular, young journalists in their 20s (61.9%) and 30s (57.3%) said they were not worried about going direct to a company.

There was also a question about investing in stocks from reporters who cover the areas related to the economy, and 56.8% said ‘it can be done’. ‘You shouldn’t’ is 13.6%c lower than that at 43.2%. The Reporters Association reported, “The response that they should not invest in stocks was higher in their political orientation (62.5%) or their media very liberal (78.6%), while the opposite, very conservative, was 32.3% each. , showing a significant difference at 41.1%.”