By Oh Seok-min
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Yonhap) — The number of people employed in South Korea increased for a second consecutive month in September, according to data released on Friday.
The total number of employed individuals in the country was 28.69 million, an increase of 309,000 from the same period last year, or 1.1 percent, as reported by Statistics Korea.
Following a four-month slump, the number of jobs added in August was greater than in any other month since June.
For the first time in three months, the nation added more than 300,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate in September was 2.3 percent, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the previous year, the data revealed.
This file photo shows a jobseeker looking at a bulletin at a job fair in Seoul on Sept. 19, 2023. (Yonhap)
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