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 Oct. 16, 2026, to announce South Korea added 113,000 jobs in September from a year earlier, with the number of employed people tallied at 29.26 million, marking three consecutive months of employment gains over 100,000. (Yonhap)

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