South Korea added the fewest jobs in three years in March, data showed Friday. The number of employed people came to 28.39 million last month, up 173,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. It marked the fewest number of new jobs since March 2021, when the country lost 473,000 job posts on-year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In February, 329,000 jobs were added on-year, the second consecutive month that on-year job additions stayed over 300,000. The employment rate of people aged 15-64 increased 0.4 percentage point on-year to 69.1 percent last month, and the jobless rate also grew 0.1 percentage point to 3 percent, the data showed. Source: Yonhap News Agency
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