South Korea's on-year employment growth accelerated for the second consecutive month in September, data showed Friday.
The number of employed people came to 28.69 million last month, up around 309,000 from a year earlier, or 1.1 percent, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea.
Monthly job additions rebounded in August after four months of a slowdown.
It is the first time in three months that the country has added more than 300,000 jobs.
The country's jobless rate came to 2.3 percent in September, down 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier, the data showed.
Source: Yonhap News Agency