Overview
- The Realmeter survey recorded Lee at 49.2 percent and Kim at 36.8 percent with a 3.1-percentage-point margin of error at a 95 percent confidence level, marking a 12.4-point advantage for Lee.
- Lee Jun-seok of the New Reform Party holds third place with 10.3 percent support after snubbing Kim’s appeal to merge candidacies.
- Under election law, the publication of opinion polls is banned from May 28, making the Realmeter survey the final public gauge before voting begins.
- The June 3 presidential election is a snap vote called after the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol over a failed martial law declaration.
- In the campaign’s final days, Lee is staging rallies in eastern Seoul’s Gwangjin and Seongdong wards while Kim returns to conservative bastions in North and South Gyeongsang provinces and the cities of Busan and Daegu.