Overview

• Lee pledged to more carefully look after people’s livelihoods and said he would endure misunderstanding and criticism for the public good, sharing Chuseok photos with the first lady in hanbok.
• Realmeter measured his approval at 53.5 percent, up 1.5 points from the prior week, ending a three-week slide in a survey of 2,017 adults.
• The pollster attributed the uptick to a summit with Japan’s Fumio Kishida, an MOU with OpenAI, the Kospi exceeding 3,500, rising exports, and reassurance from his apology and probe order after the IT network outage.
• JTBC’s Chuseok special featuring Lee and the first lady posted an 8.9 percent nationwide rating, the highest in the program’s history since its 2014 debut, Nielsen Korea reported.
• The People Power Party criticized the appearance’s timing, noting it was recorded during service disruptions caused by a late-September state data-center fire, as tariff talks with the United States continue.