▲ This file photo, taken July 10, 2026, shows a job fair being held in Seoul. (Yonhap)

jobless rate-June tally

S. Korea adds 63,000 jobs in June despite weak manufacturing

SEJONG, July 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea added 63,000 jobs in June from a year earlier, government data showed Wednesday, marking the first rebound in two months, although manufacturing sector jobs continued to lose ground.

The number of employed people came to 29.15 million in June, compared with 29.09 million a year earlier, according to data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics.

Job growth remained in the 200,000 range in February and March before slowing to 74,000 in April. It then dropped by 40,000 in May, marking the first decline in 17 months.

The country's jobless rate came to 2.8 percent last month, unchanged from a year earlier. The number of unemployed people totaled 834,000 in June, up 10,000 from a year earlier.

The employment rate for people aged 15 to 29 came to 43.9 percent, down 1.7 percentage points from a year earlier.

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