Bin Hyun-joon, chief of the social statistics bureau at the Ministry of Data and Statistics, attends a press conference at the government complex in Sejong, central South Korea, on Sept. 9, 2026, to announce South Korea added 184,000 jobs in August from a year earlier, with the number of employed people tallied at 29.15 million, marking the largest increase in five months, while employment conditions remained challenging for young people. (Yonhap)

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