By Oh Seok-min
SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) — South Korea added fewer than 100,000 jobs for the second consecutive month in June, data showed Wednesday.
The number of employed people came to 28.91 million last month, up 96,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea.
In May, 80,000 new jobs were added on-year, which was the fewest since February 2021, when the country shed 473,000 positions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In January and February, the monthly job additions surpassed the 300,000 level, but the figure fell to 173,000 in March before rising to 261,000 new jobs in April.
The employment rate of people aged 15-64 remained unchanged at 69.9 percent in June, and the jobless rate rose 0.2 percentage point to 2.9 percent, the data showed.
A job fair is crowded with jobseekers in Seoul, in this file photo taken July 3, 2024. (Yonhap)
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