President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating slightly rose to 64 percent this week, led by positive assessments of his economic and housing policies, a poll showed Friday. The survey by Gallup Korea, conducted Tuesday through Thursday on 1,000 respondents aged 18 and over, showed that the positive assessment of Lee's overall performance gained 1 percentage point from the previous week. The negative assessment remained unchanged at 26 percent. Lee's policies on the economy and real estate were both cited most frequently as the reason for the positive evaluation at 17 percent, followed by diplomacy at 11 percent. Among the negative responses, concerns over the real estate policies stood at 15 percent, followed by his economic policies at 10 percent. The pollster said respondents showed mixed responses to Lee's leadership style and real estate policies. Lee has been seeking to rein in home prices through various measures, such as ending an exemption from the heavy capital gains tax for owners of multiple homes. The approval rating for the ruling Democratic Party fell 1 percentage point to 43 per