S. Korea loses 40,000 jobs in May

Bin Hyun-joon, chief of the social statistics bureau at the Ministry of Data and Statistics, holds a press conference at the government complex in Sejong, central South Korea, on June 11, 2026, to announce South Korea lost 40,000 jobs in May from a year earlier amid economic uncertainties in the wake of the prolonged Middle East conflict, with the number of employed people tallied at 29.12 million. (Yonhap)

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