Gyeongsangnam-do Residents: "Governor Park Wansoo Is Doing a Good Job in the Ninth Elected Term, Too" ... Job Performance Satisfaction Ranks Second Nationwide for Fourth Consecutive Month

Park Wansoo, governor of Gyeongsangnam-do, has maintained his position as the nation's second-best-performing metropolitan government head since the launch of the ninth popularly elected local government term, demonstrating stable provincial administration.

Realmeter, a polling firm, released the results of its "October 2026 Survey on Job Approval of Metropolitan Mayors and Provincial Governors Nationwide" on the 12th.

According to the results, Governor Park recorded a job approval rating of 54.7%, ranking second nationwide for the fourth consecutive month, behind Gyeongsangbuk-do Governor Lee Cheol-woo. This was up 3.1 percentage points from the previous month, narrowing the gap with the top-ranked figure of 57.2% to 2.5 percentage points.

Gyeongsangnam-do Governor Park Wansoo. [Photo courtesy of Gyeongsangnam-do]

The "party-index relative score," which measures local government heads' job performance ratings against their political party's approval rating in the region, rose slightly from 116.2 points last month to 117.8 points. Park ranked joint fifth nationwide alongside Sejong Mayor Jo Se-ho.

A score of 100 or higher means that a local government head's personal job performance rating is higher than their political party's approval rating in the region.

Gyeongsangnam-do's resident satisfaction index rose 1.4 percentage points from the previous month to 62.4%, placing sixth, up one spot.

The Realmeter survey was conducted from September 27 to 30 and October 28 to 31 among 12,800 people aged 18 or older nationwide (800 in each city or province), using an automated response system with random digit dialing (RDD) via wired and wireless phones.

The statistical analysis applied a two-month rolling time-series data analysis method. Statistical adjustments were made using weights for gender, age group, and region, based on the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's resident registration population statistics as of the end of June 2026.

The margin of error for each metropolitan government was ±3.5 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, and the response rate was 2.9%.

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