South Korea added more than 100,000 jobs for the second consecutive month in August, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.80 million last month, up 123,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. In July, the monthly job additions bounced back to over 100,000 for the first time in three months to come to 172,000. In June, 96,000 jobs were added on-year after 80,000 new positions the previous month. The May tally was the fewest since February 2021. The employment rate of people aged 15-64 grew 0.2 percentage point to 69.8 percent in August, while the jobless rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 1.9 percent, the data showed. Source: Yonhap News Agency
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